Conference Session

Information Technologies Classroom Instruction

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert MacDonald, Purdue University; Raheel Malik, Whirlpool Corp.; Anthony Smith, Purdue University; James Goldman, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

workand traditional classroom instruction. With the success of the modules documented by Malik etal24, a new module was created as an extension of the previous work.In order to develop effective instructional modules focused on 802.11 client roaming, threedifferent experiments were performed. The intention for this research was to design experimentsto be replicated by undergraduate students in an isolated laboratory. For each of the threeseparate experiments, three different distribution systems were utilized: a wired infrastructure, awireless distribution system (WDS), and a wireless mesh distribution system. The mosttraditional distribution system, a wired infrastructure is also the most popular implementationwith 802.11 WLANs. The WDS

Conference Session

Emerging Information Technologies

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janell Armstrong, Brigham Young University; C. Richard Helps, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Information Systems

AC 2007-1242: COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF ZIGBEE AND BLUETOOTH:EMBEDDED WIRELESS NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES FOR STUDENTS ANDDESIGNERSJanell Armstrong, Brigham Young University Janell Armstrong is a Graduate Student in Information Technology at BYU. Her interests are in ZigBee and public key infrastructure. She has three years experience as a Teacher's Assistant. Student memberships include IEEE, IEEE-CS, ACM, SWE, ASEE.C. Richard Helps, Brigham Young University Richard Helps is the Program Chair of the Information Technology program at BYU and has been a faculty member in the School of Technology since 1986. His primary scholarly interests are in embedded and real-time computing and in technology