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SIGMETRICS
2010
ACM
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14 years 6 days ago
Coloring spatial point processes with applications to peer discovery in large wireless networks
In this paper, we study distributed channel assignment in wireless networks with applications to peer discovery in ad hoc wireless networks. We model channel assignment as a color...
Jian Ni, R. Srikant, Xinzhou Wu
MOBISYS
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
NAPman: network-assisted power management for wifi devices
WiFi radios in smart-phones consume a significant amount of power when active. The 802.11 standard allows these devices to save power through an energy-conserving Power Save Mode ...
Eric Rozner, Vishnu Navda, Ramachandran Ramjee, Sh...
PUC
2007
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13 years 6 months ago
Digital homes on wheels: designing for the unimagined home
Design for the digital home is often predicated on an ideal, imagined domestic space that is expansive, stable, occupied by a ‘‘busy’’ nuclear family, and does not always m...
Alexandra Zafiroglu, Michele Chang
CHI
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Enhancing independence and safety for blind and deaf-blind public transit riders
Blind and deaf-blind people often rely on public transit for everyday mobility, but using transit can be challenging for them. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 13 blin...
Shiri Azenkot, Sanjana Prasain, Alan Borning, Emil...
ICTAI
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Preventing Unwanted Social Inferences with Classification Tree Analysis
A serious threat to user privacy in new mobile and web2.0 applications stems from ‘social inferences’. These unwanted inferences are related to the users’ identity, current ...
Sara Motahari, Sotirios G. Ziavras, Quentin Jones