Thesis Defense a Success!
Last Friday I successfully defended my thesis at Guelph. The room was full with lots of friends, students and faculty and everything went fairly smoothly. It definitely feels great to be done after almost two years building up to this. Today I finished the final revisions and submitted all of the copies with an insane amount of paperwork to Grad Program Services. Two to three weeks from now I should get my final bound copy of my thesis and it should soon be available online and in libraries 
. For anyone interested in reading it, email me and I can send you a pdf copy.
Categories: Computer Science, News, Research, Wireless Networks by Jason Ernst
Tags: Defense, Ernst, Guelph, Jason, M.Sc., Thesis
Update on the Lack of Updates & PhD Acceptance
Just a quick post to let any readers know why there has been a lack of posts on the blog lately. I have been working like crazy on my thesis with the hope of completing it in the next month or so. I have also been preparing for the AINA 2009 conference I will be presenting at Bradford University in England. Also I have been working on a paper for a conference in Toronto (TIC-STH 2009 I think) with a deadline of May 1st May 31st (extended). So there’s been alot going on and not much time.
Categories: Computer Science, News, Research, Simulation, Wireless Networks by Jason Ernst
Tags: Acceptance, AINA 2009, Guelph, ITC 2009, Ph.D., Project, Thesis, Toronto, Wireless
Updated: NS-2.33 and HWMP rev 183 on Intrepid Ibex 8.10
This post is some quick instructions on how to install ns-2.33 and the hybrid wireless mesh protocol (hwmp) on Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex. More detail will be added later, just for quick reference right now.
Categories: Linux, Simulation, Tutorials, Wireless Networks by Jason Ernst
Tags: HWMP, Ibex, Intrepid, Mesh, Networks, NS-2.33, Ubuntu, Wireless
Guest Article: Why WPA is no longer secure
This is second Guest Article featured on the blog. The article is a brief look at why WPA encryption in wi-fi networks is not secure any longer. Our guest blogger this week is Maya Richard. She describes how brute force attacks can be used against captured packets which have been encrypted with WPA encryption. These attacks have become increasingly practical through the use of graphics hardware which is well-suited to brute force cracking.
Categories: Wireless Networks by Jason Ernst
Tags: Encryption, Security, Wireless, WPA
Guest Article: 5 Blogs and Sites for All Things Wireless
I recently received a request for a guest contribution to the blog from Kelly Kilpatrick so I thought it would be a nice change to have some content from someone other than me. The article is a compilation of some good sites for the latest on wireless technology and news.
Categories: Wireless Networks by Jason Ernst
Tags: Blogs, Networks, Wireless
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