With over seven years of experience as a freelance technology writer and reporter, Tim Keary has a range of experience breaking down complex technologies into simple and accessible content. His work ...

In decades past, communication security was the province of two widely separated domains. The task of authenticating users and ensuring security of the network channel was relegated to the network IT ...

Multiparty Session Types (MPST) provide a rigorous formalism for specifying and verifying the correctness of communications in distributed systems. Rooted in the notion of behavioural types, MPST ...

Profinet, EtherNet/IP, EtherCAT, CC-Link, Mudbus, OPC UA are common in industrial automation. SNMP, REST, SMTP, POP, HTTP, FTP, ODBC, OLE-DB and OPC UA (again) are protocols common in the IT space.

Whether implemented in hardware or software, network protocol stacks are complex structures. As such, most are purchased from third parties. But AnyWare, a compiler-based technology from Novilit, now ...

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Jini—Network Service Location Embedded network devices use infrastructures, like Sun's Jini, to locate network-based services. Jini thrives because most embedded devices support Java. Gateways provide ...

Computer networks and communication systems are interdisciplinary fields that require state-of-the-art engineering skills to meet the requirements of future technologies. Rapid growth in cloud ...

AJ Dellinger is a writer, reporter, and editor based in Madison, Wisconsin. He has been published in Wired, Gizmodo, CNET, and a variety of other publications. He has covered small business and ...