We introduce a new synchronization problem in mobile ad-hoc systems: the Driving Philosophers. In this problem, an unbounded number of driving philosophers (processes) access a rou...
People tend to form social networks within geographical areas. This can be explained by the fact that generally geographical localities correspond to common interests (e.g. studen...
Being increasingly equipped with highly-accurate positioning technologies, today's mobile phones enable their owners to transmit their current position over the cellular netwo...
—The rapid advances in a wide range of wireless access technologies along with an industry-wide IP-convergence have set up the stage for context-aware computing. The “locationâ...
By range-free localization, the positions of a mobile device can be limited to the coverage area of a radio access network cell. The drawback of such approach is the coarseness of ...