Mobility footprint refers to the size, weight, and energy demand of the hardware that must be carried by a mobile user to be effective at any time and place. The ideal of a zero m...
Stephen Smaldone, Benjamin Gilbert, Nilton Bila, L...
Reliability at massive scale is one of the biggest challenges we face at Amazon.com, one of the largest e-commerce operations in the world; even the slightest outage has significa...
Giuseppe DeCandia, Deniz Hastorun, Madan Jampani, ...
Securing access to files is an important and growing concern in corporate environments. Employees are increasingly accessing files from untrusted devices, including personal hom...
Initiating and bootstrapping secure, yet low-cost, ad-hoc transactions is an important challenge that needs to be overcome if the promise of mobile and pervasive computing is to b...
Location-based services in general require information about the position of certain objects. For instance, for a navigation service the position of the user needs to be known. Th...
Hendrik Lemelson, Thomas King, Wolfgang Effelsberg