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...
To realize the potential of opportunistic and participatory sensing using mobile smartphones, a key challenge is ensuring the ease of developing and deploying such applications, w...
Tathagata Das, Prashanth Mohan, Venkata N. Padmana...
—This paper presents an ad-hoc vehicular protocol to support the logistics of first responders. First responders often travel several kilometers to reach an area impacted by an ...
Jonathan Woodbridge, Mars Lan, Giovanni Pau, Mario...
We consider the problem of providing opportunistic spectrum access to secondary users in wireless cellular networks. From the standpoint of spectrum license holders, achieving ben...
Ashraf Al Daoud, Murat Alanyali, David Starobinski
WiFi interface is known to be a primary energy consumer in mobile devices, and idle listening (IL) is the dominant source of energy consumption in WiFi. Most existing protocols, s...