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- Base Station
- (1) An earth-based transmitting/receiving station for cellular phones, paging services and other wireless transmission systems. See earth station.
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- Samsung upgrading its UbiCell CDMA base station to 3G next year
- Samsung has announced that their UbiCell Personal CDMA Base Station will go 3G in 2010. But other than that, it's pretty hush hush. Basically, the station eliminates the need for any pesky land line services. The plug-and-play station provides in-home cellular service securely over...
- Tags: Base Station, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., 3G, Ethernet, Routers & Switches, Cellular Phones, Wireless And Mobility, Network Technology, Broadband Internet, Networking, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Rachel King
- Blog posts 2009-11-17
- Lighthouse 1.2.7 (Mac)
- Lighthouse is a dynamic port forwarding utility, allowing you to enable and disable port forwardings with just a single click. Both NAT/PMP Apple Airport base stations and UPnP (D-Link, Linksys, Netgear) protocols are supported. Port forwardings are frequently necessary for tools such as instant messengers, file-sharing utilities and other...
- Tags: Base Station, Apple Macintosh, Router, Apple Airport, UPnP, Lighthouse, Home Networking, Routers & Switches, Network Technology, Networking, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2009-10-24
- Third-party software for cellular base stations to grow by $1 bln by 2010
- The market opportunity for third-party software written for cellular base stations and other infrastructure will increase by about $1 bln dollars by the middle of 2010, according to ABI Research. In the past, over 95% of the base station bill of materials was hardware, but now they use off-the-shelf...
- Tags: Software, Base Station, Tools & Techniques, Management, AM
- Blog posts 2009-03-01
- WiMAX Relay Networks: Opportunistic Scheduling to Exploit Multiuser Diversity and Frequency Selectivity
- The paper studies the problem of scheduling in OFDMA-based relay networks with emphasis on IEEE 802.16j based WiMAX relay networks. In such networks, in addition to a base station, multiple relay stations are used for enhancing the throughput, and/or improving the range of the base station. The paper solves the...
- Tags: Base Station, Network, Association For Computing Machinery, Resource Allocation Problem, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Networking, Wireless And Mobility
- White papers 2008-09-19
- Rogue-Base Station Detection in WiMax/802.16 Wireless Access Networks
- This paper addresses to problem of detecting a rogue Base Station BS in WiMax/802.16 wireless access networks. A rogue BS is a malicious station that impersonates a legitimate Access Point AP. The rogue BS attack represents a major denial-of-service threat against wireless networks. This approach is based on the observation...
- Tags: Denial Of Service, Mobile, Carleton University, Base Station, Base Station Attack, Advertising & Promotion, Security, Wireless And Mobility, Marketing
- White papers 2008-06-16
- Griffin Evolve wireless speaker system with iPod dock
- To date, "wireless speakers" has been one of the great misnomers in consumer electronics. That's because many so-called wireless speaker systems actually introduce more wires into the equation--usually because those "wireless" systems require extra transmitters and receivers, both of which require their own power cables. And that's exactly why the...
- Tags: Griffin, speaker, base station, Apple iPod
- Product reviews 2007-11-14
- Coverage Extension of WiMax Using Multihop in a Low User Density Environment
- The usage of multihop transmission enables a cost efficient extension of the coverage of a base station BS especially in low user density environment. In this paper, a network consisting of BSs and fixed Subscriber Stations SSs is considered in which the SSs are capable to act as Relay Stations...
- Tags: Base Station, Environment, IEEE 802.16, WiMAX, Wireless And Mobility, Wi-Fi
- White papers 2007-11-10
- AP Grapher 1.2.1 (Mac)
- AP Grapher is a freeware program for Mac OS X which searches for nearby wireless (i.e., WiFi, Airport) access points and graphs the signal strength as a function of time for the base station you are currently connected to. Although the program has a stumbler like mode, its not a...
- Tags: Base Station, Apple Macintosh, Associated Press, Access Point, Chimoosoft, AP Grapher, Apple Mac OS X, Wireless, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
- Software downloads 2007-11-02
- GE Cell Fusion
- While a lot of young people are said to be ditching their landlines, the vast majority of households continue to maintain some sort of wired line in addition to their cellular phones. As a result, people are often juggling both lines at home--fielding calls on the landline while opting to...
- Tags: Cellular phones, Telecom & Utilities, Processors, General Electric Co., Cell Fusion, handset, Cell, phone, cell phone, base station
- Product reviews 2007-10-17
- WiMax provider Clearwire in low-profile Seattle nomadic test
- WiMAX solutions provider Clearwire, which is building a national WiMAX network with SprintNextel, is doing some low profile nomadic access testing in its home city of Seattle. But for those of you who cannot wait for Clearwire-Sprint's Mobile WiMAX, don't get too excited about this test. ...
- Tags: Base Station, Network, Clearwire Corp., WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-09-20
- Single-Hop Connectivity in Interference-Limited Hybrid Wireless Networks
- This paper considers a hybrid wireless network, in which the low-power nodes collect data and pass it to the data aggregation nodes base stations. The low-power nodes are assumed to form a Poisson point process and communicate to the base stations using spread spectrum. The paper derives bounds to the...
- Tags: Base Station, Network, Node, Wireless Network, University Of Notre Dame, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- White papers 2007-04-13
- Mitigating the risks of cell phone cancer: Indian food, exercise, and common sense
- Ever since I began covering the potential connection between cell phone usage and cancer, I've been receiving email from a Frans van Velden in the Netherlands who monitors the issue more closely and who occasionally forwards me anything signifcant. Before circling back to him, here's a list...
- Tags: cell phone, telephone
- Blog posts 2006-06-06
- Turtle Beach Ear Force X2
- Turtle Beach offers a series of wired Ear Force surround-sound gaming headphones that includes the X-51 and the HPA for PCs, as well as the AXT for the Xbox 360 and the original Xbox. Now the company is also selling a set of wireless stereo headphones, the Turtle Beach Ear...
- Tags: Game players, Games, Microsoft Xbox, headphone, game, base station, Turtle Beach, Xbox 360
- Product reviews 2006-06-02
- Meet the first four WiMAX-certified products
- Fixed WiMAX had its big coming out party on Thursday at the Wireless Communications Association Technical and Business Symposium in San Jose.I wasn't physically there, but I did the next best thing. I monitored it for you.On Thursday the WiMAX Forum announced its first four fixed (say that fast...
- Tags: WiMAX
- Blog posts 2006-01-19
- Want Gwen Stefani videos on your broadband cell? Think WiMAX backhaul
- That's a depiction of Verizon V CAST, Verizon Wireless' new broadband video content for cell phones. Watching Gwen Stefani on your cell is cool, but that's not what we are going to talk about here. We are going to talk about the upgrades mobile providers need to make to...
- Tags: video
- Blog posts 2006-01-11
- Design of a Multi-Sector Base Station Using the Fujitsu WiMAX SoC
- The Fujitsu WiMAX 802.16-2004 baseband SoC is designed for the development of cost-effective subscriber stations and base stations in the licensed or license-exempt bands from 2 to 11GHz. Base stations use TDD or FDD techniques to communicate with subscriber stations. The different types of base stations include pico, micro and...
- Tags: Base Station, Fujitsu Ltd., WiMAX, Corporate Governance, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Business Operations, Corporate Law
- White papers 2005-10-01
- Atlantis: Location Based Services With Bluetooth
- In an effort to offer context aware, location based services using the Bluetooth platform specification, a centralized framework has been developed that allows location approximation via sensor data from a ubiquitous Bluetooth sensor network consisting of numerous base stations. Distance from a certain base station of known position is extrapolated;...
- Tags: Base Station, Brown University, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- White papers 2005-05-03
- Cellular base station market to fall 14.4% in 2004
- While 2003 was a transition year for cellular base stations, 2004 is the one where reality will catch up with the vision, according to In-Stat/MDR. The carriers worldwide have started to execute aggressively on plans that had been delayed for years, and customers have even started to show some sign...
- Tags: base station, In-Stat/MDR
- Blog posts 2004-09-17
- SaferWep 0.3 (Mac)
- SaferWep helps you improve the security of your Airport base station by making it easy to change your WEP key periodically. It includes a program that will update your base station for you and a program that will display the current key. Source code is available under the GPL.
- Tags: Base Station, Apple Macintosh, WireRimmed, Network Security, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Open Source, Security, Networking
- Software downloads 2003-11-02
- SyncScan: Practical Fast Handoff for 802.11 Infrastructure Networks
- This paper describes SyncScan, a low-cost technique for continuously tracking nearby base stations by synchronizing short listening periods at the client with periodic transmissions from each base station. The paper implements this SyncScan algorithm using commodity 802.11 hardware and demonstrates that it allows better handoff decisions and over an order...
- Tags: Base Station, IEEE 802.11, Network, Handoff, San Diego, University Of California, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility
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