A team of researchers from MIT, Caltech, Harvard, and other universities in Europe, have devised a way of boosting the performance of wireless networks by up to 10 times -- without increasing ...

While a variety of methods can be used to reduce the power consumption of wireless LAN (WLAN) and Bluetooth applications, most of these methods must be implemented at the chip level, and their ...

A network router plays a crucial role in how data packets travel to and from a computer to host across the Internet. Routers serve as the junction point between the computers in a network and an ...

The Wi-Fi Alliance provides prioritization of data packets to clear the way on wireless networks. As audio, video and voice applications proliferate on wireless networks, quality-of-service mechanisms ...

Bufferbloats—an amusing word for a less-than-delightful issue (we reported on these last year). A bufferbloat is the proliferation of more and more buffering of IP packets in routers, switches, modems ...