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MOBISYS
2007
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
A resource optimized physical movement monitoring scheme for environmental and on-body sensor networks
— Perhaps the most significant challenge in design of on-body sensors is the wearability concern. This concern requires that the size of the nodes (sensors, processing units and ...
Antti Vehkaoja, Mari Zakrzewski, Jukka Lekkala, Sa...
MOBISYS
2007
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Automatic administration of the get up and go test
In-home monitoring using sensors has the potential to improve the life of elderly and chronically ill persons, assist their family and friends in supervising their status, and pro...
Dounia Berrada, Mario Romero, Gregory D. Abowd, Ma...
MOBISYS
2007
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Wireless wakeups revisited: energy management for voip over wi-fi smartphones
IP based telephony is rapidly gaining acceptance over traditional means of voice communication. Wireless LANs are also becoming ubiquitous due to their inherent ease of deployment...
Yuvraj Agarwal, Ranveer Chandra, Alec Wolman, Para...
MOBISYS
2007
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Improving mobile database access over wide-area networks without degrading consistency
We report on the design, implementation, and evaluation of a system called Cedar that enables mobile database access with good performance over low-bandwidth networks. This is acc...
Niraj Tolia, Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Adam Wolbach
MOBISYS
2007
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
MobiSteer: using steerable beam directional antenna for vehicular network access
In this work, we investigate the use of directional antennas and beam steering techniques to improve performance of 802.11 links in the context of communication between a moving v...
Vishnu Navda, Anand Prabhu Subramanian, Kannan Dha...
MOBISYS
2007
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
NodeMD: diagnosing node-level faults in remote wireless sensor systems
Software failures in wireless sensor systems are notoriously difficult to debug. Resource constraints in wireless deployments substantially restrict visibility into the root cause...
Veljko Krunic, Eric Trumpler, Richard Han
MOBISYS
2007
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Surface street traffic estimation
In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective method of identifying traffic conditions on surface streets given location traces collected from on-road vehicles--this requires o...
Jungkeun Yoon, Brian Noble, Mingyan Liu
MOBISYS
2007
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Context browsing with mobiles - when less is more
Except for a handful of "mobile" Web sites, the Web is designed for browsing with personal computers with large screens capable of fitting the content of most Web pages....
Yevgen Borodin, Jalal Mahmud, I. V. Ramakrishnan
MOBISYS
2007
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Vehicular opportunistic communication under the microscope
We consider the problem of providing vehicular Internet access using roadside 802.11 access points. We build on previous work in this area [18, 8, 5, 11] with an extensive experim...
David Hadaller, Srinivasan Keshav, Tim Brecht, Shu...
MOBISYS
2007
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Experiences of designing and deploying intelligent sensor nodes to monitor hand-arm vibrations in the field
The NEMO project is exploring the use of mobile sensor nodes to augment physical work artefacts in order to ensure compliance with health and safety regulations. In this paper we ...
Christos Efstratiou, Nigel Davies, Gerd Kortuem, J...