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The handbook of personal area networking technologies and protocols
\"This handbook offers an unparalleled view of wireless personal area networking technologies and their associated protocols. It lifts the lid on their growing adoption within the consumer electronics, home automation, sports, and health and well-being markets. Bluetooth low energy, ZigBee, EnOcean, and ANT+ are comprehensively covered, along with other WPAN technologies including NFC, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth classic and high speed, and WHDI. It also features 802.11ac, the Internet of Things, Wireless USB, WiGig, and WirelessHD. The handbook shows how white space radio, cellular, and femtocells have inadvertently blurred the boundaries between personal and wide area communications, creating disruptive topologies through technology convergence. It explores how pervasive WAN technologies have spawned a new generation of consumers through the Lawnmower Man Effect and explains how our personal space has become integral to social media streams, including Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest. An essential read for students, software engineers and developers, product planners, technical marketers, and analysts\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Developing practical wireless applications
In a constant stream of new ideas, wireless technologies continue to emerge offering a range of capabilities, each affording simplicity and ease-of-use. Such diversity and choice should surely beg the question, “are manufacturers using the right technology for the right product?? Developing Practical Wireless Applications will explore this question and, in doing so, will illustrate many of the wireless technologies currently available whilst drawing upon their individual strengths and weaknesses. More specifically, the book will draw your attention to the diverse collection of standardized and proprietary solutions available to manufacturers. As developers and innovators your choices are not restricted to any norm and, as such, a standardized or proprietary solution may afford you greater benefits in realising any product roadmap. Developing Practical Wireless Applications will provide you with a comprehensive understanding of how each technology works, coupled with an exploration into overlapping, complementary and competing technologies. In establishing this foundation, we will explore wireless applications in their context and address their suitability. In contrast, the book also considers the practicality of a wireless world in an attempt to better understand our audience and specific demographic groups. Coupled with a richer understanding of our consumers, along with our technology make-up we can indeed target wireless products more effectively.*Explores techniques used to attack wireless networks including WarXing, WarChalking, BlueJacking, and BlueSnarfing*Discusses applications utilizing ZigBee, NFC, RFID, Ultra-Wideband and WirelessUSB (WiMedia)*Details Bluetooth 2.x +EDR and introduces the v3.0 (BToverUWB) specification *Includes fundamental introductions to WiFi, namely 802.11i, 802.11p and 802.11n*Compares personal-area and wide-area communications including 3G, HSDPA, 4G, and WiMAX, as well as introducing Wireless Convergence
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4 - Can we Confidently Rely on Wireless Communication?
This chapter explores the failures and successes of wireless technology by examining how secure wireless technology really is and how secure it is becoming? It considers the security aspects that are currently in place and examines how best they can be improved. Wireless technology is here to stay and, in recognition of this, it draws upon specific implementations and reviews a number of security architectures that aim to be the building blocks of a secure infrastructure. The chapter considers the aspects of coexistence and interoperability, as these mechanisms assure a harmonious user experience. With personal-area wireless emerging and being integrated into commonplace products such as the cellular phone, everyone is becoming increasingly aware of a need to connect to a variety of service providers transparently. In a constant stream of new ideas and technologies, each purporting a range of capabilities that are superior to its nearest competitor, all technologies have to coexist in an already crowded environment. The architecture of wireless security can be likened to the requirement of a secure home—that is, securing its contents, its perimeter and surrounding grounds. The processes involved in identifying vulnerable wireless networks are known as War-Walking, War-Driving and War-Storming (or Flying). Developing Practical Wireless Applications discusses a broad range of wireless technologies, each of which uniquely imparts its own capabilities and features enabling a rich host of applications. Unavoidably, as each new technology is introduced, so too is a set of security features that individually characterizes a capability to minimize attacks or Denial of Service (DoS).
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9 - Aura Communications Technology: Creating the Personal Bubble
This chapter discusses a company that has chosen a new path, defied the norm, and created a technology that unleashes unobtrusive proprietary wireless communications. Its modest rationale is to deliver wireless stereo capability for the consumer electronics market. Aura Communications offers a solution that provides good quality of service (QoS) in an already overpopulated wireless world. Its solution is power and cost effective friendly, enabling manufacturers to deploy products in the market. Ultimately, what drives effective product development is cost and Aura unashamedly meets this expectation. With increasing popularity with the near field communication (NFC) forum and the eagerness to deploy similarly enabled technologies within the wireless community, Aura Communications inevitably devise better schemes to overcome a new generation of personal-area environments. Being ahead in the market and being prepared for the inescapable will assure a true and lasting future in such an unpredictable wireless world. The chapter also highlights what drives Aura to become a de facto standard where Bluetooth wireless technology seems an obvious choice for most manufacturers.
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3 - Comparing Wide-area and Personal-area Communications
The era of wireless communications technology utilizing radio waves as a transport medium has enabled electronic devices to exchange a variety of data wirelessly, transparently, and effortlessly. Both wide-area networks (WANs) and personal-area networks (PANs) share a common radio medium in which data is transferred between electronic devices, but it is a combination of consumer perception and usage scenarios that distinguishes them. The chapter clarifies the distinction that can be made between wide- and personal-area wireless and discusses the technologies that underlie most cellular-centric products. These technologies are complementary and together provide some powerful applications. New wireless technology focuses primarily on personal-area communications, with the introduction of a new range of wireless-enabled applications that define a greater sense of personal mobility and freedom that uniquely captures the personal-area technology era. Technologies such as Bluetooth, WiFi, and ZigBee provide the user greater flexibility in their personal and working environment. Personal-area technology enables users to create their own personal communications environment, which may comprise a notebook wirelessly connected to a network and a cell phone that utilizes a Bluetooth-enabled headset. Wide-area communication is evolving and emerging with new standards but nowadays its focus is directed towards added-value and improved services and applications. Personal-area wireless technology focuses on the ability to be mobile and free from the constraints of a fixed environment. Essentially, personal- and wide-area technologies have bestowed users with a sense of freedom.
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8 - Cypress Semiconductor: Introducing Wireless USB
This chapter discusses how Cypress' WirelessUSB semiconductor and its component base are architected and describes the key factors that distinguish its radio technology from other competitors. The universal serial bus (USB) has been around for almost as long as the PC and the simplicity afforded by such a technology has perpetuated the notion of connectivity as a simple means of plugging one end into another. Cypress Semiconductor (www.cypress.com) do have the right ingredients for WirelessUSB and it takes the form of a patent-pending, frequency-agile, Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) offering a combination of low power, reliability, and alleviating coexistence from a plethora of sources to include cordless phones, Bluetooth wireless technology, and WiFi. The Cypress is a commercially available Programmable Radio on a Chip (PRoC) CYWUSB69 microcontroller with integrated 2.4GHz radio transceiver. The key to Cypress' success with WirelessUSB is to integrate their technology into the PC and its associated peripheral devices. If WirelessUSB is developed as an add-on to the PC, then the consumer, to be honest, already has a baffling choice of wireless wannabes. Cypress does indeed provide easy-to-use development kits for other companies to adopt its technology and for the manufacturers that create the peripheral devices—then this surely is a must. Using WirelessUSB within a PC is an inescapable evolutionary step for everyday consumers.
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2 - Understanding the Wireless Audience
Successful product development begins first and foremost with building a comprehensive understanding of the market for which the products are intended or, put more simply, “give them what they want and they will come back for more.” For today's consumers, wireless technology offers an extraordinary liberation. The market for wireless products is extensive and spans from the rapidly evolving mobile youth market to the protection and security provided to the elderly through wireless home monitoring systems. To put a wireless product into a clear usage scenario for the consumer, it needs to be seen to provide a support structure for a particular aspect of their lives. A good example here would be the illustration of a mother sending and receiving emails from her Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) outside the school where she has just dropped off her children. This image combines the twin aspects of family and work responsibilities, and allows the consumer to psychologically bridge the gap between the two through wireless functionality. To assist in both the initial development planning procedures and long-term market positioning of new wireless products, one needs to clearly segment the market into distinct consumer groups, each assessed by motivation to purchase and typical usage patterns. To fully understand the wireless audience and be able to effectively develop the kind of new wireless applications that will achieve consumer success, one must be able to look, not only at the aspirations and needs of life today, but also to see beyond the “here and now” towards what might lie ahead.
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