A few months ago, I wrote an article about Windows Vista's ability to form ad hoc networks using the IPv6 protocol. Since that time, I have received a considerable amount of email from readers who are ...

When you’re on the road, your portable Mac is often on its own, cut adrift from the networks it usually relies on for Internet access and file sharing. And while you can often get Net access, one way ...

A peer-to-peer wireless system offers considerable advantages over more-traditional wireless-network architectures such as cellular or wireless local-area networks. However, it also poses different ...

Intel on Monday demonstrated what may be the largest wireless ad-hoc network ever set up, as part of a discussion of its research and development efforts. Such networks, which can be formed and ...

An ad hoc network consists of one or more computers that are interconnected, but don't need a centralized access point, such as a router, to transfer data back and forth. Ad hoc networks are ideal for ...

Even the often far-reaching researchers at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) seems to think this one is a stretch: Develop what’s known as mobile ad-hoc wireless technology that lets ...

Electrical engineers at the University of California, San Diego will lead a six-university effort to enable troops to set up mobile communications networks on the battlefield, using lightweight ...

Decentralized ad hoc networks, the kind we’re likely to see more of as IoT use increases, could self-discover their network size by copying ant colony behavior Ants figure out details related to the ...

Hey there,<BR><BR>I have a 12 hour road trip coming up, and I and my dad will spend much of the time building a website together. It sure would be nice if we could get our laptops connected with an ad ...

Irish researchers are using collaborative learning techniques to develop a routing protocol for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). In these networks, which can integrate any kind of WiFi-enabled ...