After having taken a closer look at x86 processor with “Inside The Machine” I came across “Mobile Unleashed“, a book about the history of a non-Silicon Valley company and technology for a change that has significantly shaped the world of computing as we know it today: ARM.
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In the past few years a number of hotel chains have experimented with Wifi De-associaten attacks to force venue guests off their own Wifi access points. Fortunately the FCC has responded quite sharply and so I haven’t seen further reports about such behavior in the wild. FCC rulings are good, countermeasures are even better. So far I haven’t seen them “in the wild” which was a bit disappointing. Up until now.
Continue reading First Wifi Access Point With PMF Frames Sighted
Over the past years but particularly in recent months I had quite a number of posts on many different aspects of using IPv6, beginning from IPv6 use at home on the PC to using IPv6 on a server at home. With things now neatly in place on both clients and server it’s time for an overview and summary.
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I’m probably one of the few people on this planet who appreciates and uses IPv6 both over my DSL connection at home and also over my cellular connection. Unfortunately there is one thing missing on the mobile side: Unrestricted incoming IPv6 access.
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In the previous blog post on VoLTE I discussed how speech codecs are negotiated during connection establishment. VoLTE uses the AMR and WB-AMR codecs that are adaptive and can encode the voice stream in several data rates and qualities. In the case of WB-AMR, voice streams can be sent with data rates between 6.6 and 23.65 kbit/s. In practice, many networks limit the codec rate to 12.65 kbit/s in the case of WB-AMR and to 12.2 kbit/s for the narrowband AMR codec. Let’s have a closer look how that is done in practice.
Continue reading VoLTE – Some Thoughts On Bandwidth Negotiation
One of the biggest revelations I had during my (ongoing) journey to discover how a processor really works is to find out how that mystical microcode in a CPU is implemented. Things culminated in the 4-Bit Nibbler Do-It-Yourself CPU project that uses a microcode ROM in the control part. For understanding how microcode works it can’t get much better than that. Except…
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When somebody asks me which book to read to really understand how a computer works I point him or her to the must read book on the topic ‘But How Do It Know‘. If after reading they come back and ask how such a computer actually ends up in chips here are my next suggestions for them:
Quite high on my list of things to do and get into when I have a bit of time are quadcopters. Well, actually that topic is on my list for years now but there’s always something else to do. Anyway today I came across a Quadcopter project with LTE connectivity for control. Cool idea, have a look here.
Speaking of quadcopters, another project that is on that wishlist of mine is the Crazyflie. Everything is open in this project, so it has a special appeal to me. That quadcopter might be a bit too small for LTE connectivity, however.
In the good old fixed line SIP world, the originator of a speech call told the other side which speech codecs it supported. The other side then picked a suitable codec and informed the originator about the choice. That was it and things were ready to go. In VoLTE, you might have guessed, it’s not quite as simple. Today, codecs are rate adaptive and bandwidth for the data stream can be limited by the mobile network to a value that is lower than the highest data rate of a codec family.