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MOBISYS
2007
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
MobiSteer: using steerable beam directional antenna for vehicular network access
In this work, we investigate the use of directional antennas and beam steering techniques to improve performance of 802.11 links in the context of communication between a moving v...
Vishnu Navda, Anand Prabhu Subramanian, Kannan Dha...
MOBICOM
2010
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Intentional networking: opportunistic exploitation of mobile network diversity
Mobile devices face a diverse and dynamic set of networking options. Using those options to the fullest requires knowledge of application intent. This paper describes Intentional ...
Brett D. Higgins, Azarias Reda, Timur Alperovich, ...
SIGMETRICS
2010
ACM
214views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2010»
14 years 14 days ago
Distributed sensor network localization from local connectivity: performance analysis for the HOP-TERRAIN algorithm
This paper addresses the problem of determining the node locations in ad-hoc sensor networks when only connectivity information is available. In previous work, we showed that the ...
Amin Karbasi, Sewoong Oh
MOBISYS
2006
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Improved access point selection
This paper presents Virgil, an automatic access point discovery and selection system. Unlike existing systems that select access points based entirely on received signal strength,...
Anthony J. Nicholson, Yatin Chawathe, Mike Y. Chen...
VTC
2007
IEEE
132views Communications» more  VTC 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
Collaborative Information Revelation and Collusion in "Word-of-Mouth" Access Selection Schemes
— “Word-of-Mouth”, a novel scheme for sharing the service quality experienced with different local networks, is presented and evaluated as a distributed solution for performi...
Pietro Lungaro