The ability to walk up to any computer, personalize it, and use it as one's own has long been a goal of mobile computing research. We present SoulPad, a new approach based on...
In this paper, we propose a system that uses the wireless networking and microphone interfaces of mobile devices to determine location to room-level accuracy. The wireless network...
Gaetano Borriello, Alan L. Liu, Tony Offer, Christ...
The widespread availability of 802.11-based hardware has made it the premier choice of both researchers and practitioners for developing new wireless networks and applications. Ho...
Energy efficiency has become a critical issue for battery-driven computers. Significant work has been devoted to improving it through better software and hardware. However, the hu...
We present the design and implementation of the Horus WLAN location determination system. The design of the Horus system aims at satisfying two goals: high accuracy and low comput...
Inverse multiplexing, or network striping, allows the construction of a high-bandwidth virtual channel from a collection of multiple low-bandwidth network channels. Striping syste...
? We present a system for automatic monitoring and timely dissemination of multimedia information to a range of mobile information appliances based on each user's interest pro...
Bin Wei, Bernard Renger, Yih-Farn Chen, Rittwik Ja...
Deployments of wireless LANs consisting of hundreds of 802.11 access points with a large number of users have been reported in enterprises as well as college campuses. However, du...
Anmol Sheth, Christian Doerr, Dirk Grunwald, Richa...
CoolSpots enable a wireless mobile device to automatically switch between multiple radio interfaces, such as WiFi and Bluetooth, in order to increase battery lifetime. The main co...
Trevor Pering, Yuvraj Agarwal, Rajesh K. Gupta, Ro...
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...