Pervasive computing applications are increasingly leveraging contextual information from several sources to provide users with behavior appropriate to the environment in which the...
Bluetooth standard allows the creation of piconets, with one node serving as its master and up to seven nodes serving as slaves. A Bluetooth ad hoc network can also be formed by in...
Bluetooth is a promising wireless technology aiming at supporting electronic devices to be instantly interconnected into short-range ad hoc networks. The Bluetooth medium access c...
Carlos de M. Cordeiro, Sachin Abhyankar, Dharma P....
Smart phones can collect and share Bluetooth co-location traces to identify ad hoc or semi-permanent social groups. This information, known to group members but otherwise unavailab...
Steve Mardenfeld, Daniel Boston, Susan Juan Pan, Q...
— Group communications are important in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANET). Multicast is an efficient method to implement the group communications. However, it is challenging to imp...