Ad hoc and peer-to-peer (P2P) computing paradigms pose a number of security challenges. The deployment of classic security protocols to provide services such as node authentication...
Esther Palomar, Almudena Alcaide, Juan M. Est&eacu...
—Wireless Community Networks (WCNs) are wide-area wireless networks whose nodes are owned and managed by volunteers. We focus on the provision of Internet access to mobile users ...
Elias C. Efstathiou, Pantelis A. Frangoudis, Georg...
Loops is a text-based computer mediated communication system aimed at small- to medium-sized corporate work groups. We begin by discussing the goals of the system and the rational...
Thomas Erickson, Wendy A. Kellogg, Mark Laff, Jere...
Experience Design is an emergent field of study, and various approaches to the field abound. In this paper, we take a pragmatic approach to identifying key aspects of an experienc...
Family and friends naturally maintain an awareness of each other on an ongoing basis (e.g., knowing one’s schedule, health issues) and many technologies are now being contemplat...