Steve Cosgrove

Whitireia New Zealand · School of Information Technology and Business

The paper documents the authors' power usage experience and hardware related designs, and concludes with a summary of the leading options available, with indications of the factors to be considered in choosing the options to use for a particular situation. The authors are committed to open standards-based, accessible, and affordable environmental m...

Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) is a widely used protocol that provides a mapping of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to Media Access Control (MAC) addresses in local area networks. This protocol suffers from many spoofing attacks because of its stateless nature and lack of authentication. One such spoofing attack is the ARP Cache Poisoning attac...

The current distributed networking model is the basis for applied network management courses all over the world, at all levels of adult education. This is because the one model has become dominant in the established networks throughout the world. There is evidence this domination is lessening. Software Defined Networking (SDN) has been in use in da...

There are many challenges typically encountered by a tertiary institution setting up applied networking resources. Such labs are necessary to create industry-ready graduates. Smaller institutes face particular issues where they lose the benefit of economies scale. This is because networking resources usually scale particularly well as the number of...

Smaller technical training institutes face particular challenges when setting up an applied networking laboratory. Such facilities scale very well, but small institutes do not get the advantage of scale. Typical components of a lab ecosystem include policy documentation and implementation, directory servers, printers, technician training, and manag...

The fast pace of development in the Mobile Data Services area means innovators have to remain vigilant to stay in the market. There is not time to undertake the usual market development cycles. As a consequence, researchers are looking at various ways to predict the adoption rate of a new product and ways to better forecast adoption in different ni...