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- Build your own Wi-Fi antenna
- If you need a signal boost and want to get a little creative, the U.K. site Heise Online has a detailed post on creating a homemade Cantenna for 802.11b/g routers. (802.11a routers require antennas of different dimensions.) It's a great way to recycle packaging for household goods and ramp up...
- Tags: Antenna, Wireless LANs, Routers & Switches, Wi-Fi, Network Technology, Wireless, Networking, Rik Fairlie
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- Wi-Fire high-gain Wi-Fi antenna doesn't always ignite
- In my quest for a wider-reaching Wi-Fi signal, I took notice when I stumbled upon a new to me company called hField Technologies. It markets a directional USB antenna that can deliver a signal up to 1,000 feet. But what really got me? A review from MacEnstein.com that claimed hField's...
- Tags: Antenna, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking, Rik Fairlie
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- Expert tips on extending your home Wi-Fi range
- Reviewers of wireless routers obsess about throughput, but let's face it: Few of us are shuffling HD video from PC to TV. The performance issue that matters to most people is range, since many users find that they have a room or two in their house where Wi-Fi just won't...
- Tags: Router, Antenna, Hawking, Wi-Fi, Routers & Switches, Wireless, Wireless LANs, Network Technology, Networking, Rik Fairlie
- Blog posts 2008-02-22
- One year till death of analog TV in USA
- Analog TV will no longer be broadcast one year from today on February 19th 2009, are you ready for the conversion to digital TV? This may or may not affect you so here's what you need to know to avoid losing TV reception! The first question to...
- Tags: Coupon, U.S. Government, Antenna, AntennaWeb.org, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, George Ou
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- Ruckus brings smart antennas to the enterprise wireless LAN space
- Ruckus Wireless launched a new line of products for the small to mid enterprise wireless LAN space. Ruckus was a maker of smart antenna technology specializing in smooth and reliable data delivery for IPTV applications but now they are extending this technology to the enterprise space. ...
- Tags: LAN, WLAN, Access Point, Antenna, Ruckus Wireless, Ruckus 2942, MediaFlex, Wireless, George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-11-20
- Hatena Antenna Gadget (gg)
- Lists your hatena antenna. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Antenna
- Software downloads 2007-11-08
- Bandwidth Provisioning in Infrastructure-Based Wireless Networks Employing Directional Antennas
- Motivated by the widespread proliferation of wireless networks employing directional antennas, the paper study the problem of provisioning bandwidth in such networks. Given a set of subscribers and one or more access points possessing directional antennas, the paper formalizes the problem of orienting these antennas in two fundamental settings; subscriber-centric,...
- Tags: Bandwidth, Network, Provisioning, Wireless Network, Antenna, Wireless
- White papers 2007-07-10
- Evaluation of a Novel Low Complexity Smart Antenna for Wireless LAN Systems
- A novel smart antenna is described, which is conceived as a low complexity inexpensive upgrade for IEEE 802.11b/g Wireless Local Area Network WLAN systems. Using smart antennas to increase network throughput by improved spatial reuse is not normally possible for systems using the 802.11 Medium Access Control MAC, unless centralised...
- Tags: WLAN, IEEE, Antenna, LANs, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking
- White papers 2006-11-20
- Mobile Wireless Communication System Antennas for 260 MHz-Band
- Automotive mounted antennae are often vertically orientated 1/4 wave antennae because the body of the car can be used as an effective reflective infinite ground plane. The 1/4 wave antenna has a low cost and is also compact in size. This compact quality is important in automobile mounted antennae because...
- Tags: Mobile, Wireless Communication, Antennae, Antenna, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- White papers 2006-03-26
- Bandwidth and Gain Improvement of a Circularly Polarized Dual-Rhombic Loop Antenna
- This paper presents a novel way to improve the performance of a Circularly Polarized CP dual-rhombic loop antenna. The bandwidth is enhanced by adding a pair of parasitic rhombic loops inside the dual-rhombic loop while the gain is increased with the help of a short backfire antenna. Good impedance matching...
- Tags: Bandwidth, Antenna
- White papers 2006-02-23
- A Turbo-Coded Multiple-Description System for Multiple Antennas
- This paper proposes a joint source-channel coding scheme for wireless communication systems with multiple transmit and receive antennas. The source coder is realized by a multiple description encoder that generates multiple bit streams. Each description is then separately turbo coded and transmitted using multiple antennas. For the receiver, the paper...
- Tags: IEEE, Antenna, Source Coder, Productivity, Wi-Fi, Performance Management, Wireless, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2006-02-01
- A Novel Microstrip Patch Antenna With Large Impedance Bandwidth in VHF/UHF Range
- In this paper a novel antenna is presented. This antenna, employing microstrip circular disc as radiator is seen to perform over a large impedance bandwidth (130MHz to 876 MHz). The disk resonator is loaded with L-C-R circuit across a selective location in the disk via a thin shorting pin. The...
- Tags: Bandwidth, Disk, Antenna, Disk Resonator
- White papers 2006-01-09
- Minimized Dual-Band Coupled Line Meander Antenna for System-In-a-Package Applications
- A novel low-profile planar coupled line meander antenna for dual-band operation is presented. The design is based on meandered line principle with a coupled line to achieve two different radiation modes for GSM and DCS applications. Because of the effect of the coupled line, total dimension of the proposed antenna...
- Tags: Antenna, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Cellular Phones, Emerging Technologies, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- White papers 2006-01-05
- Design and Testing of a Feed Network for a Transparent Antenna Array
- This paper describes the design and testing of a feed network for a transparent flat plate array antenna. This antenna is the top of a stack of three antennas that must occupy the same volume while pointing in different directions. At many pointing angles, the antenna will create blockage for...
- Tags: Network, Antenna, Networking
- White papers 2005-12-28
- A Class of Multi-Arm Monopole Antennas for Multi-Band Wireless/Mobile Applications
- This paper presents several multi-band, compact, lightweight and low-cost monopole antennas suitable for applications in the Wireless Local Area Network WLAN and mobile communications. These antennas are two-arm microstrip-fed antenna, two-arm antenna fed by a Co-Planar Waveguide CPW line, three-arm microstrip-fed antenna and a diversity antenna pair composed of two...
- Tags: Mobile, Mobile Application, Antenna, LANs, Wireless, Advertising & Promotion, Wi-Fi, Wireless LANs, Networking, Marketing
- White papers 2005-12-16
- A Compact Multi Band PIFA for Wireless LAN Mobile Terminals
- A novel compact Planar Inverted-F Antenna PIFA for laptop computers is presented. The proposed antenna is a multi-band single-feed PIFA operating in the IEEE 802.11a (5150-5350 MHz, 5725-5825MHz), IEEE 802.11b,g (2400-2484 MHz) and HIPERLAN2 (5470- 5725MHz) frequency bands. The broad impedance bandwidth is achieved by combining a trapezoidal feed plate...
- Tags: Mobile, WLAN, Laptop Computer, Computer, Antenna, Wireless LANs, Productivity, Notebooks, LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Networking
- White papers 2005-12-13
- Use of RFID Technology in Libraries: A New Approach to Circulation, Tracking, Inventorying, and Security of Library Materials
- RFID Radio Frequency IDentification allows an item, for example a library book, to be tracked and communicated with by radio waves. This technology is similar in concept to a cell phone. RFID is a broad term for technologies that use radio waves to automatically identify people or objects. There are...
- Tags: Radio, Antenna, Radio Wave, Reader, RFID, Advertising & Promotion, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Marketing
- White papers 2005-10-05
- A Topology Control Approach to Using Directional Antennas in Wireless Mesh Networks
- Directional antennas in wireless mesh networks can improve spatial reuse. However, using them effectively needs specialized protocol support at the MAC layer, which is always not practical. The work discussed in this paper presents a topology control approach to effectively using directional antennas with legacy MAC layer protocols such as...
- Tags: Network, Topology, Antenna, Idea, Mesh Networking, Wireless, Networking
- White papers 2005-09-25
- A Novel Compact Cable-Fed Antenna for a GSM/DCS Handset
- By using a branch-line ground plane, a monopole radiator, and parasitic patches, a newly compact cable-fed antenna is investigated in order to overcome the thickness problem of the Planar Inverted-F Antenna PIFA. The designed antenna has dimensions of only 40 12 1 mm and the impedance bandwidth of the proposed...
- Tags: John Wiley & Sons Inc., Antenna, Patches, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- White papers 2005-09-05
- SYN-DMAC: A Directional MAC Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks With Synchronization
- Directional antenna has received intensive research interests in recent years due to its potential to increase communication efficiency and resilience to interference and jamming. This paper provides a novel directional MAC protocol termed SYN-DMAC for ad hoc networks with synchronization. It is demonstrated that the proposed SYN-DMAC can efficiently address...
- Tags: Advertisement, MAC, University Of Florida, Problem, Antenna
- White papers 2005-08-24
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