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2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Point&Connect: intention-based device pairing for mobile phone users
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...
Chunyi Peng, Guobin Shen, Yongguang Zhang, Songwu ...
MOBISYS
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
xShare: supporting impromptu sharing of mobile phones
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...
Yunxin Liu, Ahmad Rahmati, Yuanhe Huang, Hyukjae J...
MOBISYS
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Attacks on public WLAN-based positioning systems
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...
Nils Ole Tippenhauer, Kasper Bonne Rasmussen, Chri...
MOBISYS
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
BlueMonarch: a system for evaluating bluetooth applications in the wild
Despite Bluetooth's popularity, low cost, and low power requirements, Bluetooth applications remain remarkably unsophisticated. Although the research community and industry h...
Timothy J. Smith, Stefan Saroiu, Alec Wolman
MOBISYS
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
EnTracked: energy-efficient robust position tracking for mobile devices
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....
Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard, Jakob Langdal, Torben...
MOBISYS
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
SoundSense: scalable sound sensing for people-centric applications on mobile phones
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...
Hong Lu, Wei Pan, Nicholas D. Lane, Tanzeem Choudh...
MOBISYS
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
StarTrack: a framework for enabling track-based applications
Mobile devices are increasingly equipped with hardware and software services allowing them to determine their locations, but support for building location-aware applications remai...
Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Maya Haridasan, Iqbal Moh...
MOBISYS
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Blue-Fi: enhancing Wi-Fi performance using bluetooth signals
Mobile devices are increasingly equipped with multiple network interfaces with complementary characteristics. In particular, the Wi-Fi interface has high throughput and transfer p...
Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Ion Stoica
MOBISYS
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
SolarStore: enhancing data reliability in solar-powered storage-centric sensor networks
In this paper, we present a reliable storage service, called SolarStore, that adaptively trades-off storage reliability versus energy consumption in solar-powered sensor networks....
Yong Yang, Lili Wang, Dong Kun Noh, Hieu Khac Le, ...
MOBISYS
2009
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Wifi-reports: improving wireless network selection with collaboration
Wi-Fi clients can obtain much better performance at some commercial hotspots than at others. Unfortunately, there is currently no way for users to determine which hotspot access p...
Jeffrey Pang, Ben Greenstein, Michael Kaminsky, Da...