MOBICOM
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2010
ACM
Stix is a platform managing emerging large-scale broadband wireless access (BWA) networks. It has been developed to make it easy to manage such networks for community deployments ...
MOBICOM
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2010
ACM
Localization is a fundamental operation for many wireless networks. While GPS is widely used for location determination, it is unavailable in many environments either due to its h...
MOBICOM
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2010
ACM
Cellular radios consume more power and suffer reduced data rate when the signal is weak. According to our measurements, the communication energy per bit can be as much as 6x highe...
MOBICOM
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2010
ACM
In 802.11 managed wireless networks, the manager can address under-served links by rate-limiting the conflicting nodes. In order to determine to what extent each conflicting node ...
MOBICOM
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2010
ACM
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 ...
MOBICOM
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2010
ACM
This paper studies MIMO based rate adaptation (RA) in 802.11n wireless networks. Our case study shows that existing RA algorithms offer much lower throughput than even a fixed-rat...
MOBICOM
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2010
ACM
Femtocell technology has been drawing considerable attention as a cost-effective means of improving cellular coverage and capacity. However, under co-channel deployment, femtocell...
MOBICOM
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2010
ACM
Recent work demonstrates that directional antennas have significant potential to improve wireless network capacity in indoor environments. This paper provides a broader exploratio...
MOBICOM
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2010
ACM
WiFi networks have enjoyed an unprecedent penetration rate in recent years. However, due to the limited coverage, existing WiFi infrastructure only provides intermittent connectiv...
MOBICOM
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2010
ACM
Information on site-specific spectrum characteristics is essential to evaluate and improve the performance of wireless networks. However, it is usually very costly to obtain accur...