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WWW
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Low-infrastructure methods to improve internet access for mobile users in emerging regions
As information technology supports more aspects of modern life, digital access has become an important tool for developing regions to lift themselves from poverty. Though broadban...
Sibren Isaacman, Margaret Martonosi
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
Maximizing the Contact Opportunity for Vehicular Internet Access
Abstract—With increasing popularity of media enabled handhelds, the need for high data-rate services for mobile users is evident. Large-scale Wireless LANs (WLANs) can provide su...
Zizhan Zheng, Zhixue Lu, Prasun Sinha, Santosh Kum...
WWW
2007
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Communication as information-seeking: the case for mobile social software for developing regions
In this paper, we describe several findings from a multi-year, multi-method study of how information and communication technologies have been adopted and adapted in Central Asia. ...
Beth E. Kolko, Emma J. Rose, Erica J. Johnson
ASSETS
2010
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
A web-based user survey for evaluating power saving strategies for deaf users of mobileASL
MobileASL is a video compression project for two-way, real-time video communication on cell phones, allowing Deaf people to communicate in the language most accessible to them, Am...
Jessica J. Tran, Tressa W. Johnson, Joy Kim, Rafae...
ICWN
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Eurecom IPv6 Soft Handover
The growing demand for high-speed wireless access to the Internet is the driving force behind the current trends to design All-IP wireless networks, whose Access Router and mobile ...
Farouk Belghoul, Yan Moret, Christian Bonnet