Idle Words

A good overview of where we come from and some thoughts on where we are headed.

http://idlewords.com/

PAW Server for Android – Android Apps on Google Play

PAW Server is a Web Server for Android devices.

With the PAW webserver you can use the functionality of your phone from a web browser, serve your own web pages or develop phone enabled web applications.

Tasker and Locale Plug-in support.
PHP plug-in is available.

The software is still in beta.

Working on WiFi. If 3G works is carrier dependent.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.fun2code.android.pawserver

Bus wait times

The actual time passengers spend waiting for a bus or rail transit vehicle is known to be a function of service headway (the elapsed time between consecutive buses) and reliability.2  

http://www.nctr.usf.edu/jpt/pdf/JPT%207-4%20Hess.pdf

Radiocommunication Sector (ITU-R) - World Radiocommunication Conferences (WRC)

World radiocommunication conferences (WRC) are held every three to four years. It is the job of WRC to review, and, if necessary, revise the Radio Regulations, the international treaty governing the use of the radio-frequency spectrum and the geostationary-satellite and non-geostationary-satellite orbits. Revisions are made on the basis of an agenda determined by the ITU Council, which takes into account recommendations made by previous world radiocommunication conferences.

http://www.itu.int/net/ITU-R/index.asp?category=conferences&rlink=wrc&lang=en

Wireless WiFi Site Survey Software

Analyze your Wi-Fi Coverage

NetSpot is the easiest native wireless site survey software for Mac. You need just a few clicks to load your office plan or area map and start a network site survey. Just point to where you are on the map and NetSpot starts measuring wireless signal right away, move around, and collect Wi-Fi data. That's it: now you have all the needed info to analyze radio signal leakages, discover noise sources, map channel usage, locate effective access points, etc.

http://www.netspotapp.com/

Treaty Series 1962 No. 15 — Coordination and Use of Radio Frequencies Above 30 Mc/s

Treaty Series 1962 No. 15 — Coordination and Use of Radio Frequencies – Exchange of Notes between
Canada and the United States of America
(entered into force October 24, 1962)

http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/smt-gst.nsf/eng/sf01238.html




Here is a nice list of channel assignments from Don
http://donsnotes.com/tech/em-spectrum.html

WebRTC

WebRTC is a free, open project that provides browsers and mobile applications with Real-Time Communications (RTC) capabilities via simple APIs. The WebRTC components have been optimized to best serve this purpose. 

Our mission: To enable rich, high quality, RTC applications to be developed  for the browser, mobile platforms, and IoT devices, and allow them all to communicate via a common set of protocols.

http://www.webrtc.org/

RFC Index

This file contains citations for all RFCs in numeric order.  

http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/

Capture Setup from WireShark

The following will explain capturing on 802.11 wireless networks (WLAN). 




https://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/WLAN#Turning_on_monitor_mode

Mobile phone tracking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_tracking

Mobile phone tracking refers to the ascertaining of the position of a mobile phone, whether stationary or moving. Localization may occur either via multilateration of radio signals between (several) radio towers of the network and the phone, or simply via GPS. To locate the phone using multilateration of radio signals, it must emit at least the roaming signal to contact the next nearby antenna tower, but the process does not require an active call. The Global System for Mobile Communications is based on the phone's signal strength to nearby antenna masts.^[1]

A Pattern Diversity Compact MIMO Antenna Array Design for WLAN Application | iaeme iaeme - Academia.edu

http://www.academia.edu/5336069/A_Pattern_Diversity_Compact_MIMO_Antenna_Array_Design_for_WLAN_Application

Emerging Nations Embrace Internet, Mobile Technology | Pew Research Center

http://www.pewglobal.org/2014/02/13/emerging-nations-embrace-internet-mobile-technology/

Geert Hofstede | Dimensions of national Cultures

The questions of the adoption rates for new technologies can be found in the research of experts in social psychology.


http://geerthofstede.nl/dimensions-of-national-cultures

Faux G: New "4G"

Faux G: New "4G" indicator on iPhone 4S is the tip of a standards iceberg (Updated)

http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/14/faux-g-ios-5-1s-4g-indicator-is-the-tip-of-a-standards-icebe/

IPhone cell channels

UMTS/HSPA+/DC-HSDPA (850, 900, 1700/2100, 1900, 2100 MHz)

GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)

LTE (Bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 28, 29)

Model A1549 (CDMA)*
Model A1522 (CDMA)*

CDMA EV-DO Rev. A and Rev. B (800, 1700/2100, 1900, 2100 MHz)

UMTS/HSPA+/DC-HSDPA (850, 900, 1700/2100, 1900, 2100 MHz)

GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)

LTE (Bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 28, 29)

Model A1586 (GSM)*
Model A1524 (GSM)*

UMTS/HSPA+/DC-HSDPA (850, 900, 1700/2100, 1900, 2100 MHz)

TD-SCDMA 1900 (F), 2000 (A)

GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)

FDD-LTE (Bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 28, 29)

TD-LTE (Bands 38, 39, 40, 41)

Model A1586 (CDMA)*
Model A1524 (CDMA)*

CDMA EV-DO Rev. A and Rev. B (800, 1700/2100, 1900, 2100 MHz)

UMTS/HSPA+/DC-HSDPA (850, 900, 1700/2100, 1900, 2100 MHz)

TD-SCDMA 1900 (F), 2000 (A)

GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)

FDD-LTE (Bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 28, 29)

TD-LTE (Bands 38, 39, 40, 41)

Blockchain and the distributed future

Check this out:
Blockchain and the distributed future

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/blockchain-distributed-future-azeem-azhar

You've heard of bitcoin. Underpinning the bitcoin is the blockchain, the distributed database that keeps track of every transaction involving bitcoin. Important as bitcoin might be, the signs are the blockchain is the truly revolutionary technology. 

The Internet's key design object was to survive nuclear attack. The need for resilience is what led to the distributed design pattern. But certain core features, like the IP address space and DNS lookups were never truly decentralised.

Americans’ Internet Access:2000-2015

Check this out:
Americans' Internet Access:
2000-2015

http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/06/26/americans-internet-access-2000-2015/?utm_content=buffer95b6e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Lightning Connector - The iPhone Wiki

https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/Lightning_Connector

Lightning is the "new" connector supported by iPhone 5 and newer, iPad mini 1G and newer, iPad 4 and newer, and iPod touch 5G. (For the old connector, see 30-pin Connector.) It was presented by Tim Cook at an Apple Special Event on September 12, 2012. According to Apple, it as an all-digital connector and "features an adaptive interface that uses only the signals that each accessory requires and also is 80% smaller as well as orientation independent."

• Lightning is adaptive.
• All 8 pins are used for signals, and all or most can be switched to be used for power.
• The outer plug shell is used as ground reference and connected to the device shell.
• At least one (probably at most two) of the pins is used for detecting what sort of plug is plugged in.
• All plugs have to contain a controller/driver chip to implement the "adaptive" thing.
• The device watches for a momentary short on all pins (by the leading edge of the plug) to detect plug insertion/removal.
• The pins on the plug are deactivated until after the plug is fully inserted, when a wake-up signal on one of the pins cues the chip inside the plug. This avoids any shorting hazard while the plug isn't inside the connector.
• The controller/driver chip tells the device what type it is, and for cases like the Lightning-to-USB cable whether a charger (that sends power) or a device (that needs power) is on the other end.
• The device can then switch the other pins between the SoC's data lines or the power circuitry, as needed in each case.
• Once everything is properly set up, the controller/driver chip gets digital signals from the SoC and converts them – via serial/parallel, ADC/DAC, differential drivers or whatever – to whatever is needed by the interface on the other end of the adapter or cable. It could even re-encode these signals to some other format to use fewer wires, gain noise-immunity or whatever, and re-decode them on the other end; it's all flexible. It could even convert to optical.

About us - Step Two

http://www.steptwo.com.au/about/

Step Two Designs is the global thought-leader on intranets. For over fifteen years, we've worked with organisations of every type to help deliver better intranets. We've published the books, reports and articles that intranet teams across the globe rely on to guide their planning and design decisions.

PepperSpot - OpenSource IPv4/IPv6 captive portal | Main / HomePage

http://pepperspot.sourceforge.net/

PepperSpot is a captive portal or wireless LAN access point controller which support the IPv6 protocol. It supports web based login and it supports Wireless Protected Access (WPA). Authentication is handled by your favorite radius server (over IPv4/IPv6)


Sent from my iPhone

Captive portal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_portal


Sent from my iPhone

Wireless node location mechanism using antenna pattern diversity to enhance accuracy of location estimates

Patent # 7,260,408 (issued August 21, 2007)

http://www.google.co.ug/patents/US7260408

 

Wireless node location mechanism using antenna pattern diversity to enhance accuracy of location estimates 
US 7260408 B2

Abstract

A wireless node RF Fingerprinting location mechanism that uses multiple antenna patterns to enhance the accuracy of wireless node location in an RF environment. In one implementation, substantially non-overlapping antenna pattern diversity is used to provide a degree of sectorization in computing the estimated location of a wireless node.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The present invention provides methods, apparatuses and systems directed to a wireless node RF Fingerprinting location mechanism that uses multiple antenna patterns to enhance the accuracy of wireless node location in an RF environment. In one implementation, substantially non-overlapping antenna pattern diversity is used to provide a degree of sectorization in computing the estimated location of a wireless node. As discussed in more detail below, the wireless node location mechanism can be incorporated into wireless network environments, such as 802.11 networks, to estimate the location of mobile stations, rogue access points and other wireless nodes.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application makes reference to the following commonly owned U.S. patent applications and/or patents, which are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety for all purposes:

• • U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/155,938 in the name of Patrice R. Calhoun, Robert B. O'Hara, Jr. and Robert J. Friday, entitled "Method and System for Hierarchical Processing of Protocol Information in a Wireless LAN;"
  • U.S. application Ser. No. 10/183,704 in the name of Robert J. Friday, Patrice R. Calhoun, Robert B. O'Hara, Jr., Alexander H. Hills and Paul F. Dietrich, and entitled "Method and System for Dynamically Assigning Channels Across Multiple Radios in a Wireless LAN;"
  • U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/407,357 in the name of Patrice R. Calhoun, Robert B. O'Hara, Jr. and Robert J. Friday, entitled "Method and System for Hierarchical Processing of Protocol Information in a Wireless LAN;"
  • U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/407,370 in the name of Patrice R. Calhoun, Robert B. O'Hara, Jr. and David A. Frascone, entitled "Wireless Network System Including Integrated Rogue Access Point Detection;"
  • U.S. application Ser. No. 10/447,735 in the name of Robert B. O'Hara, Jr., Robert J. Friday, Patrice R. Calhoun, and Paul F. Dietrich and entitled "Wireless Network Infrastructure including Wireless Discovery and Communication Mechanism;" and
  • U.S. application Ser. No. 10/611,522 in the name of Robert J. Friday and entitled "Non-Overlapping Antenna Pattern Diversity In Wireless Network Environments."

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to location of wireless nodes in wireless network environments and, more particularly, to a wireless node location mechanism employing antenna pattern diversity to enhance the accuracy of estimating the location of wireless nodes.

Ken Zakreski

ken.zakreski@gmail.com