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Short-range networks based on wireless mesh networking architectures have evolved to enable a power- and cost-efficient means to enable the remote management of non-computer devices. Self-organizing ...

Wireless networks have long embraced a centralized model that holds the potential for bottlenecks, latency and a single point of failure. But wireless mesh networks are emerging as an alternative to ...

Wide area networks, or WANs, provide network communication services in the workplace, connecting locations that can be spread out anywhere in the world. A topology is a description of a layout or ...

The interconnections of nodes in a communications network. Nodes are wired together in a star, bus or ring architecture. Ethernet uses a star configuration, although earlier Ethernets used a bus.