Piggyback hunting-browsing the internet in Australia via unsecured wireless networks : virtual theft or acceptable behaviour in an online world?

In a world that is increasingly dominated by the Internet, there is a growing demand for low cost access at the users convenience. The expansion of wireless Internet networks, in particular unsecured wireless Internet networks, gives rise to novel challenges for the regulation of Internet access. The ability to access unsecured wireless Internet networks with ease and with very little impact upon the owner of the network suggests that such 'piggybacking' may be criminal behaviour or may amount to an actionable civil wrong. This paper will explore the legal ramifications of piggybacking an unsecured wireless network with knowledge that there is no entitlement to the use of the network and will consider what Australian authorities should do about this situation. This paper will look at the position in Australia and juxtapose this with that of the United Kingdom and the United States of America. In both the United Kingdom and the United States of America prosecutions have taken place of individuals who knowingly accessed unsecured wireless
networks for their own personal use.

Platform-Independent IP Transmission over Wireless Networks: The WINE Approach

First demonstration of a working dynamically configurable architecture for wireless IP networks. The programmable architecture was as result of a European collaboration between Industry and University and was applied to a range of IP wireless networks. The work laid the foundations for subsequent research initiatives (including the UK) into programmable wireless networks as well as influencing future wireless standards (e.g. ITU-T).EU project WINE (Wireless Internet NEtworking), -1999-10028.

Data storage system for wireless sensor networks

Dissertação de mestrado, Engenharia Informática, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade do Algarve, 2015

Internet móvel em Portugal: variáveis de acesso, uso e consumo

A emergência de novas formas de acesso à internet vem reforçar a necessidade de desenvolvimento de iniciativas de I&D que facilitem a melhor compreensão dos processos de transformação associados à evolução tecnológica e aferir se de tais processos resultam novas consequências sociais ao nível das formas de uso e consumo de uma tecnologia e arranjos sociais associados. Este projecto pretende avaliar o papel e relevância das tecnologias móveis de acesso à internet, a importância da mobilidade e dos dispositivos móveis como instrumentos na promoção do envolvimento social, da interação e da expressão subjectiva. Na sequência da aplicação de metodologias qualitativas numa fase exploratória, através de entrevistas com os principais representantes da indústria das comunicações móveis e dos estudos de mercado, e de metodologias quantitativas com a aplicação de um questionário a uma amostra representativa da sociedade portuguesa, temos como objectivo desenvolvimento de um protótipo para uma aplicação móvel no contexto educativo do ensino superior, ligada ao apoio aos alunos e docentes e incluindo conteúdos escolares, institucionais e de envolvimento social. Esta aplicação vem corresponder às necessidades dos utilizadores de acordo com os resultados obtidos anteriormente. A análise do uso desta plataforma e consequências daí resultantes em termos de participação, usabilidade, actividades e potencial para produção de capital será realizada com base na análise de redes sociais (SNA). Através desta pretendemos observar e estudar as relações e os padrões de relacionamentos entre os utilizadores de internet móvel num contexto educativo.

Recebimento de dados GNSS via Internet em RTCM 3 e conversão para RINEX utilizando a plataforma J2ME

Changes are occurring worldwide, including the area of positioning using Global Navigation Satellite Systems in mobile devices such as mobile phones or laptops. This is due to the great improvement and availability of Internet services to these mobile devices. The accuracy and speed of data transmission for these devices makes the technology of sending / receiving data via an internet targeted for optimization. The optimization could allow obtaining, in real-time, coordinates (latitude, longitude and altitude) of suitable quality for users of GPS (Global Positioning System) devices that have wireless Internet access, such as those used to control the eet, locomotion, navigation, agriculture, etc. . The use of the protocol NTRIP (Networked Transport of RTCM via Internet Protocol) in GPS applications is growing every day. Applications are available in C, which creates an opportunity for development with a focus on multiplatform environments. In this context, we propose an application, implemented in a multiplatform environment and the use of NTRIP, able to run on a mobile device for receiving GNSS data

Impact of the Internet on Final Year Students' Research: A Case Study of Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria

The 21st century is characterized by advancements in information and communication technology (ICT), including the Internet. Final year students of Covenant University implore the use of the Internet in writing their projects. This paper examines the extent of accessibility and use of the Internet by these students and the impact the Internet has on their projects. A questionnaire was used for data collection. A total of 150 questionaires were distributed to students from each of the three colleges in the university. The results show that all respondents used the Internet for their project work. Nearly all indicated that the Internet has an impact on their projects, especially in the areas of quality of work, speed, time economy, and recency of materials. Recommendations for improvement include provision of wireless Internet access points and training and retraining of students to acquire computer and Internet search skills.

Towards Information-Centric Wireless Multi-hop Communication

Information-centric networking (ICN) addresses drawbacks of the Internet protocol, namely scalability and security. ICN is a promising approach for wireless communication because it enables seamless mobile communication, where intermediate or source nodes may change, as well as quick recovery from collisions. In this work, we study wireless multi-hop communication in Content-Centric Networking (CCN), which is a popular ICN architecture. We propose to use two broadcast faces that can be used in alternating order along the path to support multi-hop communication between any nodes in the network. By slightly modifying CCN, we can reduce the number of duplicate Interests by 93.4 % and the number of collisions by 61.4 %. Furthermore, we describe and evaluate different strategies for prefix registration based on overhearing. Strategies that configure prefixes only on one of the two faces can result in at least 27.3 % faster data transmissions.