Troubleshooting Assistance Services in Community Wireless Networks

Enabling Wireless LAN Troubleshooting

Particular WLAN pathologies experienced in realistic scenarios are hard to detect, due to the complex nature of the wireless medium. Prior work has employed sophisticated equipment, driver modifications, or even application-layer techniques, towards diagnosing such pathologies. The key novelty of our approach lies in the identification of metrics able to characterize the root causes of individu...

A Distributed Monitoring System for troubleshooting Wireless Networks

Over recent years, one has seen a tremendous increase in the use of mobile devices such as laptops and PDA’s replacing the conventional desktops, particularly in the realm of personal and business computing. Given such increasingly widespread use of mobile devices, one would be inclined to think that a complete switch from wired to wireless networks isn’t too far in the future. However the majo...

Geographic Services for Wireless Networks

Personal communication services in wireless networks

The paper presents modern personal services and new trends observed in evolution of wireless services. The article covers voice and data transmission services offered in mobile networks as well as information services delivered to users over Internet/IP networks. With reference to voice services, selected GSM services based on IN services platform, e.g., the services of flexible scenarios are d...

Emerging services and technologies in wireless networks

Wireless communication technologies have been characterized by an astonishing evolution process in the last years. In particular, the widespread deployment of various wireless communication infrastructures and systems has fostered the diffusion of innovative services strongly leveraging ubiquitous coverage and mobility technologies. To support the novel services mentioned above, a large number ...