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SRDS
1998
IEEE
14 years 13 days ago
Tolerating Visitor Location Register Failures in Mobile Environments
For mobile users who move frequently but receive relatively rare calls, a forwarding scheme has been shown to outperform the normal IS-41 location management scheme. But the forwa...
Saad Biaz, Nitin H. Vaidya
MOBISYS
2010
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Improving energy efficiency of location sensing on smartphones
Location-based applications have become increasingly popular on smartphones over the past years. The active use of these applications can however cause device battery drain owing ...
Zhenyun Zhuang, Kyu-Han Kim, Jatinder Pal Singh
SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Automatically locating framework extension examples
Using and extending a framework is a challenging task whose difficulty is exacerbated by the poor documentation that generally comes with the framework. Even in the presence of do...
Barthélémy Dagenais, Harold Ossher
CHI
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Biketastic: sensing and mapping for better biking
Bicycling is an affordable, environmentally friendly alternative transportation mode to motorized travel. A common task performed by bikers is to find good routes in an area, whe...
Sasank Reddy, Katie Shilton, Gleb Denisov, Christi...
CHI
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Location and activity sharing in everyday mobile communication
Frank Bentley We present a study on current, real-world communication of location and activity information based on analyzing context-sharing practices in recorded mobile phone cal...
Frank Bentley, Crysta J. Metcalf