Transmitting data wireless over a short distance. Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Direct are examples of personal area networks (PANs). See Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Direct. In the mid-1990s, IBM's Almaden Research ...

He wants to build a system that could be used for a PAN (Personal Area Network). To do this he’ll have to figure out a way to build the system inexpensively and using less than a watt of power.

This chapter discusses security for personal area networks (PANs). An overview of different PAN security issues and solutions is given. We define a PAN reference and trust model. A PAN security ...

Wireless local-area networks, WLANs, have been developed as well to handle data traffic and have been proliferating worldwide. It is these networks and their even-smaller relatives, personal-area ...