—Collaborative mechanisms between services are a crucial aspect in the recent development of pervasive computing systems based on the paradigm of service-oriented architecture. C...
A growing class of smartphone applications are tasking applications that run continuously, process data from sensors to determine the user’s context (such as location) and activ...
Lenin Ravindranath, Arvind Thiagarajan, Hari Balak...
Many networked applications that run in the background on a mobile device incur significant energy drains when using the cellular radio interface for communication. This is mainl...
Pavan K. Athivarapu, Ranjita Bhagwan, Saikat Guha,...
Nowadays, an increasing number of objects can be represented by their wireless electronic identifiers. For example, people can be recognized by their phone numbers or their phone...
Boying Zhang, Jin Teng, Junda Zhu, Xinfeng Li, Don...
Location-Based Services (LBSs) utilize information about users' locations through location-aware mobile devices to provide services, such as nearest features of interest, the...