An experimental study of MANET using 802.11b has shown that there exist several configurations where this standard does not guarantee fairness for the channel access. In this pap...
The recent popularity of mobile camera phones allows for new opportunities to gather important metadata at the point of capture. This paper describes a method for generating metad...
Abstract. Ubiquitous computing is a challenge for the design of middleware. The reasons are resource constraints, mobility, heterogeneity, etc., just to name a few. We argue that s...
An ID recognition system is described that uses optical beacons and a high-speed image sensor. The ID sensor captures a scene like an ordinary camera and recognizes the ID of a be...
Context-aware computing describes the situation where a wearable / mobile computer is aware of its user’s state and surroundings and modifies its behavior based on this informat...
Andreas Krause, Daniel P. Siewiorek, Asim Smailagi...