Many emerging smartphone applications require position information to provide location-based or context-aware services. In these applications, GPS is often preferred over its alte...
Mobile sensing is difficult without power. Emerging Computational RFIDs (CRFIDs) provide both sensing and generalpurpose computation without batteries--instead relying on small ca...
Jeremy Gummeson, Shane S. Clark, Kevin Fu, Deepak ...
As the world moves to digital storage for archival purposes, there is an increasing demand for reliable, lowpower, cost-effective, easy-to-maintain storage that can still provide ...
Mark W. Storer, Kevin M. Greenan, Ethan L. Miller,...
An operating system’s readahead and buffer-cache behaviors can significantly impact application performance; most often these better performance, but occasionally they worsen it...
Play-on-demand is usually regarded as a feasible access mode for web content (including streaming video, web pages and so on), web services and some Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) a...