Abstract:
Many organizations, from universities to corporate networks or hotspot providers, have deployed WiFi networks permitting external users to connect to the Internet through their networks. Such WiFi roaming has many security repercussions, for the visited network as well as for the visiting user.

Napster was probably one of the first popular peer-to-peer application. Since then, many other peer-to-peer techniques and been developed and measurement studies show that in some parts of the Internet peer-to-peer applications generate more packets than classical client server applications. During the last ten years, many papers have been written on peer-to-peer technologies. The new book written by Buford, Yu and Lua has collected more than 550 references and provides a detailed and up-to-date survey on the peer-to-peer world.

This new edition of Douglas Comer's book clearly indicate that networking courses are more and more taught at undergraduate level. The fifth edition of this book is an introductory book on computer networking and TCP/IP in particular. Douglas Comer choose to cover a large number of topics at an introductory level. The book uses a mixed approach. It first starts by describing internet trends and internet applications. Then, it spends 130 pages on the physical layer. This part does not require any specific electrical knowledge.

"High-level" presentation of our roaming solution developed in the ALAWN project. Targeted public was non-technical people (lawyers), so no details are given.

Slides in english (except for the first page).

A few years ago, Juniper Networks used cartoons and humour to attack its rival cisco in a marketing campaign with companion postcards and lots of cartoons. Recently, Juniper decided to come back to traditional marketing and removed the cartoons from its website. Cisco took the opposite direction with a new marketing campaign based on flash videos : http://www.cisco.com/cdc_content_elements/flash/security/therealm/index....