MOBISYS
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
This paper presents the design and deployment experience of an air-dropped wireless sensor network for volcano hazard monitoring. The deployment of five stations into the rugged c...
MOBISYS
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
Urban sensing, participatory sensing, and user activity recognition can provide rich contextual information for mobile applications such as social networking and location-based se...
MOBISYS
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
Point&Connect (P&C) offers an intuitive and resilient device pairing solution on standard mobile phones. Its operation follows the simple sequence of point-and-connect: wh...
MOBISYS
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
Loaded with personal data, e.g. photos, contacts, and call history, mobile phones are truly personal devices. Yet it is often necessary or desirable to share our phones with other...
MOBISYS
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
In this work, we study the security of public WLAN-based positioning systems. Specifically, we investigate the Skyhook positioning system, available on PCs and used on a number of...
MOBISYS
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
Despite Bluetooth's popularity, low cost, and low power requirements, Bluetooth applications remain remarkably unsophisticated. Although the research community and industry h...
MOBISYS
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
An important feature of a modern mobile device is that it can position itself. Not only for use on the device but also for remote applications that require tracking of the device....
MOBISYS
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
Top end mobile phones include a number of specialized (e.g., accelerometer, compass, GPS) and general purpose sensors (e.g., microphone, camera) that enable new people-centric sen...
MOBISYS
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
Mobile devices are increasingly equipped with hardware and software services allowing them to determine their locations, but support for building location-aware applications remai...
MOBISYS
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2009
ACM
Mobile devices are increasingly equipped with multiple network interfaces with complementary characteristics. In particular, the Wi-Fi interface has high throughput and transfer p...