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2008
ACM
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2008
ACM
Recent years have witnessed the impacts of distributed content sharing (Wikipedia, Blogger), social networks (Facebook, MySpace), sensor networks, and pervasive computing. We beli...
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2008
ACM
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2008
ACM
: Railway systems are critical in many regions, and can consist of several tens of thousands of bridges, being used over several decades. It is critical to have a system to monitor...
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2008
ACM
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2008
ACM
Mobile users of computation and communication services have been rapidly adopting battery-powered mobile handhelds, such as PocketPCs and SmartPhones, for their work. However, the...
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2008
ACM
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2008
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Increasingly, 802.11 devices are being used by mobile users. This results in very dynamic wireless channels that are difficult to use efficiently. Current rate selection algorithm...
MOBISYS
2008
ACM
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2008
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This paper investigates an application of mobile sensing: detecting and reporting the surface conditions of roads. We describe a system and associated algorithms to monitor this i...
MOBISYS
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
2008
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We present the design and evaluation of an 802.11-like wireless link layer protocol that obfuscates all transmitted bits to increase privacy. This includes explicit identifiers su...
MOBISYS
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
2008
ACM
Personal mobile devices are increasingly equipped with the capability to sense the physical world (through cameras, microphones, and accelerometers, for example) and the network w...
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2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
2008
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Adaptive transmit power control in 802.11 Wireless LANs (WLANs) on a per-link basis helps increase network capacity and improves battery life of Wifi-enabled mobile devices. Howev...
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2008
ACM
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2008
ACM
Cascadia is a system that provides RFID-based pervasive computing applications with an infrastructure for specifying, extracting and managing meaningful high-level events from raw...
MOBISYS
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
2008
ACM
RFID is widely used to track the movement of goods through a supply chain. In this paper, we extend the domain of RFID by presenting SixthSense, a platform for RFID-based enterpri...