A few months ago, I wrote an article about Windows Vista's ability to form ad hoc networks using the IPv6 protocol. Since that time, I have received a considerable amount of email from readers who are ...

That wireless networking is on the cusp of becoming a mainstream technology is irrefutable. As the recent Communications In Focus section in EE Times (February 26, 2001) shows, the outstanding ...

A peer-to-peer wireless system offers considerable advantages over more-traditional wireless-network architectures such as cellular or wireless local-area networks. However, it also poses different ...

An ad hoc network consists of one or more computers that are interconnected, but don't need a centralized access point, such as a router, to transfer data back and forth. Ad hoc networks are ideal for ...

An ideal application for mesh networking is off-grid communication; when there’s no cellular reception and WiFi won’t reach, wide-area technologies like LoRa can be used to create ad hoc wireless ...

Even the often far-reaching researchers at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) seems to think this one is a stretch: Develop what’s known as mobile ad-hoc wireless technology that lets ...

Intel on Monday demonstrated what may be the largest wireless ad-hoc network ever set up, as part of a discussion of its research and development efforts. Such networks, which can be formed and ...

Strange question here, but does anyone know of any access points that are capable of creating/joining an AD-HOC SSID? I have a strange application where I have a device with zero configuration ...

Electrical engineers at the University of California, San Diego will lead a six-university effort to enable troops to set up mobile communications networks on the battlefield, using lightweight ...

I'm on the train right now, tethered to my cellphone. Despite the fact that its already fairly pokey, I'm feeling generous, so I created an ad hoc wireless network. Is there any way short of watching ...