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ICITA
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Specknets: New Challenges for Wireless Communication Protocols
Speckled Computing [1] is an emerging technology in which data will be sensed and processed in small (around 5X5 sq. millimeter) semiconductor grains called Specks. A dense and no...
Kai Juan Wong, D. K. Arvind
ICSE
2001
IEEE-ACM
13 years 12 months ago
Workshop on Software Engineering and Mobility
Mobility is redefining the hardware and software fabric of distributed systems. Wireless communication allows network hosts to participate in a distributed computation while on t...
Gruia-Catalin Roman, Gian Pietro Picco
NCA
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Providing Hard Real-Time Guarantees in Context-Aware Applications: Challenges and Requirements
Context-aware applications rely on the ability to perceive the state of the surrounding environment. In this paper, we address a class of such applications where real-time guarant...
Malika Boulkenafed, Barbara Hughes, René Me...
ECOOPW
1998
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Secure Recording of Itineraries through Co-operating Agents
Security is a fundamental precondition for the acceptance of mobile agent systems. In this paper we discuss protocols to improve agent security by distributing critical data and o...
Volker Roth
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
After access: challenges facing mobile-only internet users in the developing world
This study reports results of an ethnographic action research study, exploring mobile-centric internet use. Over the course of 13 weeks, eight women, each a member of a livelihood...
Shikoh Gitau, Gary Marsden, Jonathan Donner