Publications

Journal papers

C. Laurendeau and M. Barbeau, "Centroid Localization of Uncooperative Nodes in Wireless Networks Using a Relative Span Weighting Method," EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Special issue on Wireless Network Algorithms, Systems, and Applications, Volume 2010 (2010), 10 pages. (PDF)

C. Laurendeau and M. Barbeau, "Probabilistic Localization and Tracking of Malicious Insiders Using Hyperbolic Position Bounding in Vehicular Networks," EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Special issue on Wireless Network Security, Volume 2009 (2009), 13 pages. (PDF)

C. Laurendeau and M. Barbeau, "Probabilistic Evidence Aggregation for Malicious Node Position Bounding in Wireless Networks,"Journal of Networks, 4(1): 9-18, February 2009. (PDF)

Michel Barbeau, Prosenjit Bose , Paz Carmi, Mathieu Couture and Evangelos Kranakis, "Location-Oblivious Distributed Unit Disk Graph Coloring," Algorithmica, 2009, DOI 10.1007/s00453-009-9334-z.

Christine Laurendeau and Michel Barbeau, "Insider Attack Attribution Using Signal Strength Based Hyperbolic Location Estimation," Security and Communication Networks, Wiley, 1 (4), pp. 337-349, 2008. (PDF)

Paul Boone, Michel Barbeau and Evangelos Kranakis, "Strategies for Fast Scanning, Ranging and Handovers in WiMAX/802.16," International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems (IJCNDS) Vol. 1, No. 4-6, 2008, pp. 414-432.

Mathieu Couture, Michel Barbeau, Jit Bose and Evangelos Kranakis, "Incremental Construction of k-Dominating Sets in Wireless Sensor Networks," International Journal of Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks, Volume 5, Number 1-2, 2008, pp. 47-68.

Michel Barbeau and Jean-Marc Robert, "Rogue-Base Station Detection in WiMax/802.16 Wireless Access Networks," Annals of Telecommunications, Vol. 61, No. 11-12, November-December 2006, pp. 1300-1313. (PDF)

Michel Barbeau, Evangelos Kranakis and Honghui Luo, "Strategies for Service Discovery over Ad Hoc Networks," Engineering Letters, 13:1, June 2006, pp. 11-23. (PDF)

M.E. Elaasar, M. Barbeau and E. Kranakis and Z. Li, "A Satellite Transport Protocol Handling Bit Corruption, Handoff and Limited Connectivity," IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 41, No. 2, April 2005, pp. 489-502. (PDF)

V. Azondekon, M. Barbeau and R. Liscano, "Indoor Ad Hoc Proximity-Location Sensing for Service Selection," Telecommunication Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers 22(1): 95-108, Jan 2003. (PDF)

F. Lévesque and M. Barbeau, "Découverte de services sur un réseau de petits ordinateurs - Service Discovery on Networks of Small Computers," Systèmes répartis et Réseaux - Calculateurs parallèles, Vol. 12, No. 2, 2000, pp. 189-209. (PDF)

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Feature articles

Michel Barbeau, The Enigma Machine and Its Electronic Variant - La machine Enigma at sa version électronique, Canada's Amateur Radio Magazine - La revue des radioamateurs canadiens, July/August 2009 - Juillet/Aout 2009, pp. 40-44.

Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Michel Barbeau and Evangelos Kranakis, Les composants RFID sont-ils vulnérables? Techniques de l'ingénieur, Juillet 2009, pp. 40-44 (premiere partie); Septembre 2009 (deuxieme partie).

M. Barbeau and C. Laurendeau, Tilting at Giants: Avoiding Quixotic Pursuits in Understanding the Threats to Wireless Network Security - Comment éviter de devenir un Don Quichotte de la radio en bien évaluant les menaces à la sécurité des réseaux sans fils, MITACS e-newsletter, Connections, September 2007.

Papers in conferences

- 2010

P. Boone, M. Barbeau and E. Kranakis, Prioritized Access for Emergency Stations in Next Generation Broadband Wireless Networks, Eighth Annual Conference on Communication Networks and Services Research (CNSR 2010), Montreal, Canada,May 11-14, 2010.

- 2009

Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Michel Barbeau and Evangelos Kranakis, Security Threat Mitigation Trends in Low-cost RFID Systems, 2nd SETOP International Workshop on Autonomous and Spontaneous Security (Co-located with ESORICS 2009), Saint Malo, Brittany, France, September 24-25, 2009.

C. Laurendeau and M. Barbeau, Relative Span Weighted Localization of Uncooperative Nodes in Wireless Networks, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems and Applications (WASA), Boston, MA, USA, August 16-18, 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 5682, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2009, pp. 358-367. (PDF)

Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Michel Barbeau and Evangelos Kranakis, Secure Localization of Nodes in Wireless Sensor Networks with Limited Number of Truth Tellers, 7th Annual Communication Networks and Services Research (CNSR) Conference, IEEE Communications Society, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada, May 2009, pp. 86-93. (PDF)

- 2008

Christine Laurendeau and Michel Barbeau, Hyperbolic Location Estimation of Malicious Nodes in Mobile WiFi/802.11 Networks, 2nd IEEE LCN Workshop On User MObility and VEhicular Networks (ON-MOVE), Montreal, October 2008, pp. 600 - 607. (PDF)

Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Michel Barbeau and Evangelos Kranakis, Evaluation of Anonymized ONS Queries, First Workshop on Security of Autonomous and Spontaneous Networks Organized (SETOP), Loctudy, France, 2008.

Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Michel Barbeau and Evangelos Kranakis, Analysis of Threats to the Security of EPC Networks, Sixth Annual Communication Networks and Services Research (CNSR) Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, May 2008, pp. 67 - 74.

Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Michel Barbeau and Evangelos Kranakis, Security threats on EPC based RFID Systems, 5th International Conference on Information Technology (ITNG), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, April 2008.

- 2007

P. Boone, M. Barbeau and E. Kranakis, Strategies for Fast Scanning and Handovers in WiMax/802.16, BWIA-First International Workshop on Broadband Wireless Access (IEEE ACCESSNETS 2007), August 22-24, 2007, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, pp. 1 - 7.

Christine Laurendeau and Michel Barbeau, Secure Anonymous Broadcasting in Vehicular Networks, Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), pages 661-668, October 2007. (PDF)

M. Couture, M. Barbeau, P. Bose, P. Carmi, and E. Kranakis, Location Oblivious Distributed Unit Disk Graph Coloring, 14th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity (SIROCCO), Italy 2007.

- 2006

M. Couture, M. Barbeau, P. Bose, and E. Kranakis, Incremental Construction of k-Dominating Sets in Wireless Sensor Networks, 10th International Conference On Principles Of Distributed Systems (OPODIS), Bordeaux, France, 2006.

J. Hall, M. Barbeau and E. Kranakis, Detection of Rogue Devices in Bluetooth Networks using Radio Frequency Fingerprinting, IASTED International Conference on Communications and Computer Networks (CCN 2006), Lima, Peru, October 2006.

C. Laurendeau and M. Barbeau, Threats to Security in DSRC/WAVE, 5th International Conference on Ad-hoc Networks, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Volume 4104, 2006, pp. 266-279. (PDF)

M. Barbeau, J. Hall, and E. Kranakis, Detecting Impersonation Attacks in Future Wireless and Mobile Networks, Mobile Ad-hoc Networks and Sensors workshop (MADNES), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Volume 4074, 2006, pp. 80-95. (PDF)

- 2005

M. Barbeau, WiMax/802.16 Threat Analysis, 1st ACM Workshop on QoS and Security for Wireless and Mobile Networks (Q2SWinet), Montreal, 2005, pp. 8-15. (PDF)

J. Hall, M. Barbeau and E. Kranakis, Anomaly-based Intrusion Detection Using Mobility Profiles of Public Transportation Users, International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), 2005, pp. 17-24. (PDF)

M. Barbeau and J.-M. Robert, Perfect Identity Concealment in UMTS Over Radio Access Links, International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), 2005, pp. 72-77. (PDF)

V.K. Choyi and M. Barbeau, Low-Latency Secure Mobile Communications, International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), 2005, pp. 38-43. (PDF)

J. Hall, M. Barbeau and E. Kranakis, Using Mobility Profiles for Anomaly-based Intrusion Detection in Mobile Networks, NDSS Preconference Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Security, 2005. (PDF)

- 2004

J. Hall, M. Barbeau and E. Kranakis, Enhancing Intrusion Detection in Wireless Networks Using Radio Frequency Fingerprinting, Communications, Internet and Information Technology (CIIT), St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, November 2004. (PDF)

M. Barbeau, E. Kranakis, D. Kryzanc and Pat Morin, Improving Distance Based Geographic Location Techniques in Sensor Networks, 3rd International Conference on Ad Hoc NetwOrks and Wireless (ADHOC-NOW), Vancouver, 2004. (PDF)

H. Luo and M. Barbeau, Performance Evaluation of Service Discovery Strategies in Ad Hoc Networks, 2nd Annual Communication Networks and Services Research (CNSR) Conference, Fredericton, N.B., Canada, May 2004, pp. 61-68. (PDF)

G. Li and M. Barbeau, Performance of Generative Programming Based Protocol Implementation, 2nd Annual Communication Networks and Services Research (CNSR) Conference, Fredericton, N.B., Canada, May 2004, pp. 113-120. (PDF)

R. Liscano, A Ghavam and M. Barbeau, Integrating Service Discovery Protocols with Presence-Based Communications for Ad Hoc Collaborative Scenarios, 2nd Annual Communication Networks and Services Research (CNSR) Conference, Fredericton, N.B., Canada, May 2004, pp. 357-361.

- 2003

J. Hall, M. Barbeau and E. Kranakis, Detection of Transient in Radio Frequency Fingerprinting Using Phase Characteristics of Signals, In: L. Hesselink (Ed.), Proceedings of the 3rd IASTED International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications (WOC), ACTA Press, Banff, Alberta, 2003, pp. 13-18. (PDF)

M. Barbeau and E. Kranakis, Modeling and Performance Analysis of Service Discovery in Ad Hoc Networks, In: W. Zhuang, C.-H. Yeh, O. Droegehorn, C.-K. Toh and H.R. Arabnia (Eds.), Proceedings of International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN), CSREA Press, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2003, pp. 44-50. (PDF)

M.E. Elaasar, Z. Li, M. Barbeau and E. Kranakis, The eXtended Satellite Transport Protocol: Its Design and Evaluation, Proceedings of 17th Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites, Logan, Utah, 2003. (PDF)

- 2002

A. Ghavam, R. Liscano, M. Barbeau, T.A. Gray and N.D. Georganas, Secure Presence-based Services, Workshop on Ad hoc Communications and Collaboration in Ubiquitous Computing Environments, held in conjunction with the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), New Orleans, 2002. (PDF)

A. Ghavam, R. Liscano, M. Barbeau, T.A. Gray and N.D. Georganas, Enabling Secure Ad Hoc Communications in the Enterprise, Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Ad-Hoc Networks and Wireless (ADHOC-NOW), Toronto, 2002, pp. 219-223. (PDF)

M. Barbeau and F. Bordeleau, "A Protocol Stack Development Tool Using Generative Programming," in: D. Batory and C. Consel (Eds.), Proceedings of Generative Programming and Component Engineering (GPCE), (PDF) , Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2487, 2002, pp. 93-109. (Copyright Springer)

M. Barbeau, F. Bordeleau and J. Smith, "An Introduction to a UML Platform Independent Model of a Software Radio," International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT), Beijing, China, 2002. (PDF) / (Slide)

V. Azondekon, M. Barbeau and R. Liscano, "Service Selection in Networks Based on Proximity Confirmation Using Infrared," International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT), Beijing, China, 2002. (PDF)

- 2001

J. Govea and M. Barbeau, "Results of Comparing Bandwidth Usage and Latency: Service Location Protocol and Jini," Workshop on Ad hoc Communications, held in conjunction with the Seventh European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW 2001), Bonn, Germany, September 16-20, 2001. (PDF)

J. Peng, P. Andreadis, C. Bélisle and M. Barbeau, "Improving TCP Performance Over Long Delay Satellite Links," OPNETWORK 2001, Washington, 2001. (PDF) (Distinguished Paper Award)

S. Bernier and M. Barbeau, "A Virtual Ground Station Based on Distributed Components for Satellite Communications," Proceedings of 15th Annual Small Satellite Conference, Logan, Utah, 2001. (PDF)

E. Hughes, D. McCormack, M. Barbeau, and F. Bordeleau, "Service Recommendation using SLP," IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT), Bucharest, June, 2001. (PDF)

J. Hall, S. Kilbank, M. Barbeau, and E. Kranakis, "WPP: A Secure Payment Protocol for Supporting Credit- and Debit-card Transactions Over Wireless Networks," IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT), Bucharest, June, 2001. (Paper, PDF) (Slides, PDF)

Z.-S. Zeng and M. Barbeau, "An Experimental Implementation of Mobile IPv6 on a Personal Digital Assistant," IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT), Bucharest, June, 2001. (PDF) (Paper Award)

- 2000

E. Hughes, D. McCormack, M. Barbeau, and F. Bordeleau, "An Application for Discovery, Configuration, and Installation of SLP Services," The 5th Mitel Workshop on Innovation in Technology and Application (MICON 2000), Ottawa, August 2000. (PDF)

S. Robinson and M. Barbeau, "The p-kernel: A Framework for Mobile and Wireless Network Protocol Implementation on Personal Digital Assistants," The 5th Mitel Workshop on Innovation in Technology and Application (MICON 2000), Ottawa, August 2000. (PDF)

M. Barbeau, "Bandwidth usage analysis of Service Location Protocol," Workshop on Pervasive Computing, International Conference on Parallel Processing, The International Association for Computers and Communications (IACC), Toronto, August 2000, pp. 51-56. (PDF)

F. Lévesque and M. Barbeau, "A Distributed Component Based Middleware for Discovery of Information Appliances," SSGRR 2000 Computer and Ebusiness Conference, L'Aquila, Roma, July-August 2000. (PostScript)

C. Bélisle, P. Andreadis, S. Bernier, F. Lévesque, and M. Barbeau, "Bandwidth Allocation for IP Traffic Over Satellite Links," SSGRR 2000 Computer and Ebusiness Conference, L'Aquila, Roma, July-August 2000. (PDF)

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Books

M. Barbeau and E. Kranakis, Principles of Ad Hoc Networking, John Wiley and Sons, Ltd, 2007. ISBN: 9780470032909

J. Almhana, M. Barbeau and A. Kamal (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th Annual Communication Networks and Services Research Conference (CNSR), IEEE Computer Society, 2006. ISBN: 0-7695-2578-4

I. Nikolaidis, M. Barbeau and E. Kranakis (Eds.), Ad-Hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3158, Springer, 2004. (ISBN 3-540-22543-9 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York)

S. Pierre, M. Barbeau and E. Kranakis (Eds.), Ad-Hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2865, Springer, 2003. (ISBN 0303-9743; ISBN 3-540-20260-9 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York)

M. Barbeau and E. Kranakis (Eds.), ADHOC-NOW - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on AD-HOC Networks and Wireless, Carleton Scientific, September 2002. (ISBN 1-894145-15-1)

Chapters in books

J. Garcia-Alfaro, M. Barbeau, E. Kranakis, "Handling of Security Threats to the RFID System of EPC Networks," In: Security of Self-Organizing Networks: MANET, WSN, WMN, VANET, Auerbach Publications, Taylor & Francis Group, USA, to appear.

M. Barbeau, P. Boone and E. Kranakis, "WiMAX/802.16 Broadband Wireless Networks," In: S. Misra, S. C. Misra and I. Woungang (Editors), Selected Topics in Communication Networks and Distributed Systems, World Scientific , to appear.

M. Barbeau, E. Kranakis and I. Lambadaris, "Establishing a Communication Infrastructure in Ad Hoc Networks," In: A. Boukerche (Editor), Algorithms and Protocols for Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, Wiley and Sons Publisher, 2008, 496 pp.

M. Barbeau and C. Laurendeau, "Analysis of Threats to WiMax/802.16 Security", in: Y. Zhang and H.-H. Chen (Editors), Mobile WiMax: Toward Broadband Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks, Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications Series, Volume 7, Taylor and Francis Group, CRC Press, 2007, 449 pp.

M. Barbeau, "Mobile, Distributed, and Pervasive Computing," in: I. Stojmenovic (Editor), Chapter 27 - Handbook of Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., February 2002 (ISBN: 0-471-41902-4), pp. 581-600. (PDF)

L. Beaudoin and M. Barbeau, "Object-Oriented Analysis and Design of Repositories of Network Management Systems," in: V.S. Alagar and R. Missaoui (Eds.), Object-Oriented Technology for Database and Software Systems, World Scientific, River Edge (NJ), 1995, ISBN 981-02-2170-3, pp. 145-155.

Talks

- 2008

with C. Laurendeau, Malicious Wireless Node Detection Using RSS-based Position Bounding, Invited Presentation, MITACS/MASCOS Joint Workshop on Fusion, Mining and Security for Networks , Montreal, 2008. (PDF)

with J. Garcia-Alfaro and C. Laurendeau, Threat Analysis Paradigms in Wireless Technology, Tutorial, Canada-France MITACS Workshop on Foundations and Practice of Security, Montreal, 2008. (PDF)

with C. Laurendeau, WiMAX/802.16 Broadband Wireless Networks, Invited Presentation, SYTACom Research Workshop, Concordia University, Montreal, 2008. (PDF)

- 2006

Security Issues for Wireless Sensor Networks, Tutorial, 5th International Conference on Ad Hoc NetwOrks and Wireless (ADHOC-NOW), Ottawa, 2006.

- 2005

Améliorer la détection d'intrusion dans les futurs réseaux sans fil et mobiles, Invited Presentation, Conférence annuelle Innovation, Laboratoires universitaires Bell/Bell University Laboratories, Montréal 2005.

Réseaux Ad Hoc, Tutorial, Nouvelles Technologies de la répartition (NOTERE), Gatineau 2005.

Introduction to the IEEE 802.16/WiMax Broadband Wireless Networks, Tutorial, International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), Montréal 2005.

- 2004

Wireless Communications Security, Invited Presentation, MITACS Cyber Security Workshop, Ottawa, November 2004. (PDF)

Wireless Communications Security: Issues, Solutions and Challenges , Tutorial, 3rd International Conference on Ad Hoc NetwOrks and Wireless (ADHOC-NOW), Vancouver, 2004. (PDF)

- 2003

Intrusion Detection and Radio Frequency Fingerprinting Mobile and Wireless Networks, Invited Presentation, Ottawa Wireless Research Alliance Seminar, Ottawa, 2003. (PDF)

Mobile and Wireless Network Security, Tutorial, 2nd International Conference on Ad-hoc Networks and Wireless, (ADHOC-NOW '03), Montreal, 2003. (PDF)

Technical reports

Payal Bhatia, Christine Laurendeau and Michel Barbeau, Detecting and Localizing Transmitters in a Wireless Evil-Twin Attack, Technical Report TR-10-05, School of Computer Science, Carleton University, March 2010. (PDF)

Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Michel Barbeau, and Evangelos Kranakis, A Proactive Threshold Secret Sharing Scheme Handling Gen2 Privacy Threats, Technical Report TR-10-03, School of Computer Science, Carleton University, March 2010. (PDF)

Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Michel Barbeau, and Evangelos Kranakis, Positioning ofWireless Sensor Nodes in the Presence of Liars, Technical Report TR-10-04, School of Computer Science, Carleton University, March 2010. (PDF)

Christine Laurendeau and Michel Barbeau, Wireless Network-based Relative Span Weighted Localization of Uncooperative Nodes, Technical Report TR-09-04, School of Computer Science, Carleton University, March 2009. (PDF)

Christine Laurendeau and Michel Barbeau, Localization and Tracking of Mobile Attackers Using Hyperbolic Position Bounding in Vehicular Networks, Technical Report TR-09-01, School of Computer Science, Carleton University, January 2009. (PDF)

Christine Laurendeau and Michel Barbeau, Malicious Node Position Bounding in Mobile WiFi/802.11 Networks, Technical Report TR-08-09, School of Computer Science, Carleton University, May 2008. (PDF)

Christine Laurendeau and Michel Barbeau, Compounding Probabilistic Evidence for Hyperbolic Rogue Location Estimation, Technical Report TR-08-04, School of Computer Science, Carleton University, February 2008. (PDF)

Christine Laurendeau and Michel Barbeau, Rogue Attribution Using Relative Signal Strength Based Location Estimation, Technical Report TR-08-01, School of Computer Science, Carleton University, January 2008. (PDF)

Mathieu Couture, Michel Barbeau, Prosenjit Bose, Paz Carmi, Evengelos Kranakis, Location Oblivious Distributed Unit Disk Graph Coloring, Technical Report TR-07-01, School of Computer Science, Carleton University. (PDF)

Mathieu Couture, Michel Barbeau, Prosenjit Bose, Evangelos Kranakis, Incremental Construction of k-Dominating Sets in Wireless Sensor Networks, Technical Report TR-06-11, School of Computer Science, Carleton University. (PDF)

Jeyanthi Hall, Michel Barbeau, Evangelos Kranakis, Anomaly-based Intrusion Detection Using Mobility Profiles of Public Transportation Users, Technical Report TR-05-01, School of Computer Science, Carleton University. (PDF)

J. Govea and M. Barbeau, Comparison of Bandwidth Usage: Service Location Protocol and Jini, Technical Report TR-00-06, School of Computer Science, Carleton University, October 2000. (PDF)

M. Barbeau, Transfer of Mobile Agents Using Multicast: Why and How to Do It on Wireless Mobile Networks, Technical Report TR-00-05, School of Computer Science, Carleton University, July 2000. (PostScript)

Patents

V.K. Choyi and M. Barbeau, Method and Apparatus for Providing Low-latency Secure Session Continuity Between Nodes, United States Patent Application 20060268901, November 2006.

V.K. Choyi and M. Barbeau, Method and Apparatus for Providing Route-optimized Secure Session Contnuity Between Mobile Nodes, International Patent Application WO2006072890, United States Patent Application 20060245362, November 2006.

J.M. Robert and M.Barbeau, Rogue Access Point Detection in Wireless Networks, United States Patent Application 20070079376, April 2007

R. Liscano, V. Azondekon and M. Barbeau. System and Method for the Selection of Electronic Services from a Set of Resources Using Infrared Communication, Canadian Patent Application CA2408126, European Patent Application EP1309154, United States Patent Application 20030086392, UK Patent Application GB0126650.1, November 2001.

R. Liscano, V. Azondekon and M. Barbeau. System and Method for Faciliting the Selection of Electronic Services Using Infrared and a Network Address Identification, United States Patent 7,339,907, March 2008.