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WMCSA
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A case for application aware channel access in wireless networks
The increasing reliance of users on wireless networks for Internet connectivity has posed two significant challenges for mobile networking research. The first challenge is to pr...
Ashish Sharma, Elizabeth M. Belding
WMCSA
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
LiveCompare: grocery bargain hunting through participatory sensing
Many consumers are misled into paying high prices due to the search costs associated with attaining price information [16]. The popularity of bargain-hunting web sites like Slickd...
Linda Deng, Landon P. Cox
WMCSA
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
We saw each other on the subway: secure, anonymous proximity-based missed connections
There is an inherent tension between the value provided by Location-Based Services (LBSs) and the location-privacy concerns they raise. Unfortunately, users are often forced to ei...
Justin Manweiler, Ryan Scudellari, Zachary Cancio,...
WMCSA
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Experimenting in mobile social contexts using JellyNets
Programmable consumer devices have placed computation within arm’s reach at all times and in all places. Unfortunately, researchers interested in investigating this phenomenon o...
Peter Gilbert, Eduardo Cuervo, Landon P. Cox
WMCSA
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Enabling new mobile applications with location proofs
Location is rapidly becoming the next “killer application” as location-enabled mobile handheld devices proliferate. One class of applications that has yet-to-emerge are those ...
Stefan Saroiu, Alec Wolman
WMCSA
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
BALANCE: towards a usable pervasive wellness application with accurate activity inference
Technology offers the potential to objectively monitor people‘s eating and activity behaviors and encourage healthier lifestyles. BALANCE is a mobile phone-based system for long...
Tamara Denning, Adrienne H. Andrew, Rohit Chaudhri...
WMCSA
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Context-aware composition
Context–Aware Composition is a technique to overcome the complexity of wireless discovery, device selection, and establishing connections to other computers in an environment wh...
Kent Lyons, Roy Want, David Munday, Jiasheng He, S...
WMCSA
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Sharing airtime with Shair avoids wasting time and money
Shair is a system allowing contracted mobile phone users to benefit from their unused quota minutes and text messages. Unused minutes and texts are shared via opportunistic local...
Pan Hui, Richard Mortier, Kuang Xu, Jon Crowcroft,...
WMCSA
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
The case for intentional networking
Jason Flinn, Thomas J. Giuli, Brett D. Higgins, Br...
WMCSA
2009
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Planning ahead: techniques for simplifying mobile service use
Interacting with mobile applications and services remains difficult for users because of the impact of mobility on both device capabilities and the cognitive resources of users. I...
Michael Harding, Oliver Storz, Nigel Davies, Adria...