Posts with Tag: Wireless

The State of Connectivity in Guatemala

Inspired by the [Akamai State of the Internet report](https://web.archive.org/web/20160708134821/htt ...

Favourite Yo! Features From Fresh Eyes

After being a part of the team working on Yo! for almost a month I’ve had some time to dig into the ...

Toshiba Laptop + Ubuntu, Wireless Switch Problem

Just a quick post, about an annoyance with my Toshiba Satellite laptop. Maybe it will help someone, ...

Upcoming PhD QE Progress

So I’ve been doing my PhD for over two years now, and I haven’t posted a reflective “state of the th ...

Why Blanket Wireless Coverage in Waterloo Failed, and Potential Solutions

Today the KW Record ran an article entitled “Blanket Wi-Fi plans unplugged in Waterloo Region and Gu ...

BWCCA 2010 – Adaptive Mixed Bias Resource Allocation for Wireless Mesh Networks

Today I presented a recent paper on “Adaptive Mixed Bias Resource Allocation for Wireless Mesh Netwo ...

Research Day – Summer 2010

Tomorrow I present at Research Day at University of Guelph at 1:30pm. Here is the abstract for the p ...

ICC 2010 – Cross-Layer Mixed Bias Scheduling for Wireless Mesh Networks

This post is somewhat motivated by [Prof. Andrew Eckford’s post](http://andreweckford.blogspot.com/2 ...

ANN for Wireless Network Applications

This semester I have been taking a soft computing course. We have covered fuzzy logic and are starti ...

AINA 2009 Conference Presentation

This past week I travelled to the UK to present at my first International Conference – Advanced Info ...

Thesis Defense a Success!

Last Friday I successfully defended my thesis at Guelph. The room was full with lots of friends, stu ...

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 h ...

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 ...

Ns-3.2 on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron

For the next stage of my thesis instead of using the well known ns-2 simulator as originally planned ...

PerWin Research Group @ the University of Guelph

Today I completed the listing page for all of the presentations our research group PerWin at the Uni ...

Ten Practical Applications of Wireless Networks

Wireless Networks have become very popular in recent years and research in the area is very active. ...

Tutorial: Ns-2.33 (and nam) on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)

Since I have been working with ns2 for the last few months in preparation for my thesis I have decid ...

Fair Scheduling & Load Balancing in WMN

My research is becoming more focused as of late towards the area of fair scheduling and load balanci ...

Thesis Topic

The last few days have been extremely busy. I have finally settled on a thesis topic after a few mon ...

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Multicast Ipv4 and Ipv6 in Java / Kotlin

I recently ran into a peculiarity of multicast in Java / Kotlin. I was using a MulticastSocket: [https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/net/MulticastSocket.html](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/net/MulticastSocket.html) and trying to ensure that it winds up bound to either an Inet4Address or Inet6Address. It turns out that even if I did something like: ``` val multicastSocket = MulticastSocket(InetSocketAddress("0.0.0.0", MULTICAST_DEFAULT_PORT)) assert(multicastSocket.localAddress is Inet4Address) ``` The assertion could fail. Similarly if I did: ``` val multicastSock ...