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MOBISYS
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Reincarnating PCs with portable SoulPads
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...
Ramón Cáceres, Casey Carter, Chandra...
MOBISYS
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
WALRUS: wireless acoustic location with room-level resolution using ultrasound
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...
MOBISYS
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
An overlay MAC layer for 802.11 networks
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...
Ananth Rao, Ion Stoica
MOBISYS
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Energy efficiency of handheld computer interfaces: limits, characterization and practice
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...
Lin Zhong, Niraj K. Jha
MOBISYS
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
The Horus WLAN location determination system
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...
Moustafa Youssef, Ashok K. Agrawala
MOBISYS
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Horde: separating network striping policy from mechanism
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...
Asfandyar Qureshi, John V. Guttag
MOBISYS
2005
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
MediaAlert: a broadcast video monitoring and alerting system for mobile users
? 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...
MOBISYS
2006
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
MOJO: a distributed physical layer anomaly detection system for 802.11 WLANs
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...
MOBISYS
2006
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
CoolSpots: reducing the power consumption of wireless mobile devices with multiple radio interfaces
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...
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...