While a number of User-Level Protocols have been developed to reduce the gap between the performance capabilities of the physical network and the performance actually available, a...
Pavan Balaji, Piyush Shivam, Pete Wyckoff, Dhabale...
We describe a virtual “tether” for mobile devices that allows groups to have quick, simple and privacy-preserving meetups. Our design provides cues which allow dynamic coordin...
John Williamson, Simon Robinson, Craig Stewart, Ro...
The amount of personal digital media is increasing, and managing it has become a pressing problem. Effective management of media content is not possible without content-related me...
Risto Sarvas, Erick Herrarte, Anita Wilhelm, Marc ...
Energy consumption is a major issue in dynamically reconfigurable systems because of the high power requirements during repeated configurations. Hardware designs employ low power ...
—One of the challenges of ambient systems lies in providing all the available services of the environment to the ambient devices, even if they do not physically host those servic...