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Implementation and Evaluation of a Mobile Wireless PlanetLab Node

With the introduction of cellular phones, mobile wireless communication has become an integral part of day-to-day life in this century. A testbed is crucial in continuing cutting-edge wireless technology research and development since physical and MAC layers in mobile wireless communication have many parameters pertinent to performance that are often...

Tags: Mobile, Wireless, Testbed, Research & Development, Advertising & Promotion, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Business Operations, Marketing

White papers 2009-08-18

HP, Intel, Yahoo collaborate on cloud computing

HP, Intel and Yahoo today announced that three new research organizations will join their Open Cirrus joint effort, a global open source testbed for the advancement of cloud computing research. The continued effort marks increased collaboration between the tech giants for cloud computing....

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Yahoo! Inc., Intel Corp., Open Cirrus, Testbed, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-06-08

WEIRD Testbeds With Fixed and Mobile WiMAX Technology for User Applications, Telemedicine and Monitoring of Impervious Areas

Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks based on IEEE 802.16d/e standards are soon to be deployed in several countries. However, there is lack of published literature with results from actual testbeds. This paper introduces the work done in the EU Sixth Framework Programme Project WEIRD to design and set up WiMAX testbeds...

Tags: Mobile, Monitoring, Association For Computing Machinery, Testbed, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility

White papers 2008-03-20

An Open Source Tracking Testbed and Evaluation Web Site

This paper has implemented a GUI-based tracking testbed system in C and Intel OpenCV, running within the Microsoft Windows environment. The motivation for the testbed is to run and log tracking experiments in near real-time. The testbed allows a tracking experiment to be repeated from the same starting state using...

Tags: Algorithm, Web, Carnegie-Mellon University, Open Source, Web Site, Testbed, Engineering, Web Site Development, Internet

White papers 2008-01-01

A QoS Evaluation Testbed for MAC Protocols for Wireless Camera Networks

Existing QoS metrics can only be used for wireless sensor networks when the capability of sensor nodes is limited to making simple measurements such as temperature, pressure, etc. These metrics do not capture the communication patterns encountered when sensing is more elaborate, as in wireless camera networks where the need...

Tags: QoS, MAC, Network, Testbed, Wi-Fi, Wireless

White papers 2007-09-28

With ZDNet's pod-vidcasting TestBed prototype, we look at the new AJAXy AOL Mail

With ZDNet's pod-vidcasting TestBed prototype, we look at the new AJAXy AOL MailAwesomeI've been using the new AOL web mail since it's been in beta and it's been awesome. It's addressed all of my previous issues and makes me wonder why anyone would want to use Gmail (unless you...

Tags: Corporate communications, TestBed prototype, pod-vidcasting TestBed prototype, AJAXy AOL Mail, Testbed, new AJAXy AOL Mail, video

Discussion threads 2007-09-05

A Wired-Wireless Testbed Architecture for Network Layer Experimentation Based on ORBIT and VINI

This paper presents an initial design of a global-scale wired wireless testbed and its prototyping based on the existing ORBIT and VINI testbeds. It allows researchers to define custom network topologies comprising both wired and wireless nodes and experimenting with new network and transport layer protocols in these networks. The...

Tags: Network, Association For Computing Machinery, Testbed, Wi-Fi, Networking, Wireless

White papers 2007-07-25

ZDNet Blogs: Testbed

A collection of images featured in ZDNet Blogs, including Between the Lines and Testbed.

Tags: image, ZDNet Blogs, blog, Testbed

Image galleries 2007-01-25

Testbed notes: Partitions, provisioning Vista x64, and VMWare

Testbed notes: Partitions, provisioning Vista x64, and VMWareIsn't thelatest version of Virtual-PC originally made by Connectix and now owned by Microsoft supposed to support the 64bit chip architecture?That would be a perfect match, wouldn't be?Just my two cents.Furball Tipster.

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Testbed, Vista x64, provisioning, VMware Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2005-09-07

Additional Resources

Throughput and Capacity of MIMO WiMAX

The work in this paper presents physical layer throughput measurement results of a WiMAX link implemented according to IEEE 802.16-2004. The measurements were carried out in an alpine and an urban scenario using the Vienna MIMO Testbed. The paper compares the measured throughput to three different theoretical bounds: the channel...

Tags: Physical Layer, Throughput, Vienna University, MIMO, WiMAX, Wireless And Mobility

White papers 2009-11-04

Collaboration in a Wireless Grid Innovation Testbed by Virtual Consortium

This paper describes the formation of the Wireless Grid Innovation Testbed WGiT coordinated by a virtual consortium involving academic and non-academic entities. Syracuse University and Virginia Tech are primary university partners with several other academic, government, and corporate partners. Objectives include: coordinating knowledge sharing, defining key parameters for wireless grids...

Tags: Innovation, Collaboration, Syracuse University, Wireless, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility

White papers 2009-09-09

Dartmouth Internet Security Testbed (DIST): Building a Campus-Wide Wireless Testbed

This paper describes the experiences in deploying a campus-wide wireless security testbed. The testbed gives one the capability to monitor security-related aspects of the 802.11 MAC layer in over 200 diverse campus locations. The paper describes both the technical and the social challenges of designing, building, and deploying such a...

Tags: George Mason University, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility

White papers 2009-07-15

Empirical Study of Tolerating Denial-of-Service Attacks With the Fosel Architecture

Filtering techniques are one of the main approaches to protect applications from Denial of Service Attacks DoS. However filtering techniques suffer from two main challenges: the accuracy detection of DoS traffic and processing time. Fosel Filtering with the help of an Overlay Security Layer has been proposed to protect application...

Tags: Denial Of Service, Architecture, Fosel, Security

White papers 2009-07-14

Vulnerability Analysis of Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) DoS Attack Over Wireless Networks

IEEE 802.11 supports 802.1x to provide strong authentication mechanism for Wireless networks. 802.1x utilizes Extensible Authentication Protocol EAP as a framework for authentication, allowing for a number of authentication methods to be used. Unfortunately, 802.1x includes some unprotected EAP packets during authentication process which can be easily exploited by an...

Tags: Network, Vulnerability, IEEE 802.1X, Analysis, Authentication, Wireless Network, Wireless, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Security

White papers 2009-07-01

The GridEcon Platform: A Business Scenario Testbed for Commercial Cloud Services

This paper presents the GridEcon Platform, a testbed for designing and evaluating economics-aware services in a commercial Cloud computing setting. The Platform is based on the idea that the exact working of such services is difficult to predict in the context of a market and, therefore, an environment for evaluating...

Tags: Workflow Engine, Economics, Platform, Marketplace

White papers 2009-06-28

Open Cirrus Cloud Computing Testbed: Federated Data Centers for Open Source Systems and Services Research

There are a number of important and useful testbeds, such as PlanetLab, EmuLab, IBM/Google cluster, and Amazon EC2/S3, that enable researchers to study different aspects of distributed computing. However, no single testbed supports research spanning systems, applications, services, open-source development, and datacenters. Towards this end, one has developed Open Cirrus,...

Tags: Data Center, Open Cirrus, Data Centers, Storage, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Open Source, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2009-05-27

General Motors: It's Time for a Rebranding

Is the future of General Motors its most recognized brand? My gut feeling is yes. Associated Press is reporting that over 1000 auto dealers are going to be forced to close as a result of GM's restructuring, which will include the elimination of...

Tags: Car, Brand, Dealership, Chevrolet, General Motors Corp., Cadillac, Chevy, Branding, Marketing, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-04-28

On the Accuracy of RFID-Based Localization in a Mobile Wireless Network Testbed

The extensive recent research in protocols development for wireless networks must be complemented with simple yet efficient prototyping and evaluation mechanism. MiNT-2 is a miniaturized multi-hop wireless network testbed that addresses this challenge by combining the benefits of existing protocol evaluations strategies: simulations and custom built large scale wireless network...

Tags: Mobile, Network, Localization, Wireless Network, Wireless, MiNT-2, Wi-Fi, RFID, Wireless And Mobility, Networking, Security, Biometrics

White papers 2009-03-21

All flash drives not created equal

Low-priced SATA flash drives are tempting. But beware: some of them test at an abysmal 2 random writes per second! The hype around flash SSDs attracted bottom-feeders to build junk drives with USB thumb drive controllers that were never intended for disk-level performance. Stuff them...

Tags: Hard Drive, Performance, USB Flash Drive, Low-priced SATA Flash Drive, Calypso Systems, Flash Memory, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-03-16

Canson PaperShow kit

When it comes to the traditional computer interface, so far nothing has been able to replace the keyboard and mouse. Once in a while, however, an alternative interface device comes along that makes specific tasks much easier. Canson's $199 PaperShow kit is one such device. Nonetheless, make sure you are...

Tags: Wi-Fi, Canson PaperShow, Bluetooth, Canson

Product reviews 2009-02-04