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MAC

membrane attack complex; minimal alveolar concentration; Mycobacterium avium complex (disease).

MAC

1. Abbreviation for minimal anesthetic concentration; minimal alveolar concentration; membrane attack complex.

2. Abbreviation for Mycobacterium avium complex.

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MAC

Abbreviation for:
Macintosh (computer)
major ambulatory category
mammalian artificial chromosome
maximum acceptable concentration
maximum aerobic capacity
Medical Advisory Committee
Medicare Appeals Council
membrane attack complex
Mental Adjustment to Cancer scale
Migration Advisory Committee
minimum antibiotic concentration
mitral annular calcification
monitored anaesthesia care
Mycobacterium avium complex

MAC

1. Mammalian artificial chromosome.

2. Maximum allowable change, see there.

3. Maximum allowable concentration.

4. Membrane attack complex, see there.

5. Minimum alveolar concentration.

6. Monitored anesthesia care, see there 8. Mycobacterium avium complex.

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The selected product handles more MAC addresses than its replacement, and the two models differ in other characteristics, such as the capability to be powered over Ethernet.

Cross-validation of quality-adjustment methods for price indexes

They prevent that data connections are kidnapped by means of ARP spoofing or corresponding IPv6 attacks, but packets can still be hijacked if a false identity (MAC address) is adopted by a host and only a simple MAC-learning switch is applied in connection with the OF-controller.

An SDN-Based Approach to Ward Off LAN Attacks

Moreover, when explicit identifiers are unavailable (e.g., because of MAC address randomization), the MS can only rely on implicit information to construct a fingerprint for the observed devices.

Noncooperative 802.11 MAC Layer Fingerprinting and Tracking of Mobile Devices

In our work, the MAC address and connection port are used to identify traffic and honeypots.

Worm-Hunter: A worm guard system using software-defined networking

Companies that provide ''mobile location analytics'' to retailers, grocery stores, airports, and others say they capture the MAC addresses of shoppers' phones but then scramble them into different sets of numbers and letters to conceal the original addresses -- a process called hashing.

Stores track you by your phone data

Gouda and Huang [5] proposed a structure that resolves the security problems of MAC address and IP address within the Ethernet.

DS-ARP: a new detection scheme for ARP spoofing attacks based on routing trace for ubiquitous environments

A valid MAC address assignment is that, for any two nodes in a network, address distinction must be guaranteed if the two nodes (1) are within radio range of each other or (2) have at least one common neighbor.

An energy efficient dynamic address encoding scheme for wireless sensor network

methodologies currently in use and explain how Wi-Fi MAC address mapping

Why-spy? An analysis of privacy and geolocation in the wake of the 2010 Google "Wi-Spy" controversy

The switch has 1K MAC address table and provides 512Kb buffering capabilities.

VMC Launches XKNECT 8-Port L2 Switch for better connectivity

These are generally referred to as "hotspots." In a typical hotspot environment, there are two addresses that are utilized to transfer data over the Internet: 1) the hotspot's IP address and 2) the MAC address of the patron's laptop computer network card.

Tracking down anonymous internet abusers: who is John Doe?

For the house, we can use a "zip code;" for the computer, we use a "network number." The network number and MAC address pair uniquely specifies the address of a BACnet device.