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SERVICES
2010
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12 years 11 months ago
Odin: Context-Aware Middleware for Mobile Services
Abstract--Mobile devices such as smart phones are increasing permeating society. With strides in computational power, coupled with the ability to connect to other small devices, sm...
Thiranjith Weerasinghe, Ian Warren
SOCIALCOM
2010
13 years 2 months ago
GDC: Group Discovery Using Co-location Traces
Smart phones can collect and share Bluetooth co-location traces to identify ad hoc or semi-permanent social groups. This information, known to group members but otherwise unavailab...
Steve Mardenfeld, Daniel Boston, Susan Juan Pan, Q...
ASSETS
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Iwalk: a lightweight navigation system for low-vision users
Smart phones typically support a range of GPS-enabled navigation services. However, most navigation services on smart phones are of limited use to people with visual disabilities....
Amanda J. Stent, Shiri Azenkot, Ben Stern
ACSAC
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Porscha: policy oriented secure content handling in Android
The penetration of cellular networks worldwide and emergence of smart phones has led to a revolution in mobile content. Users consume diverse content when, for example, exchanging...
Machigar Ongtang, Kevin R. B. Butler, Patrick Drew...
COMPUTER
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Challenges and Lessons in Developing Middleware on Smart Phones
Near-ubiquitous smart phones are the most promising heralds of future pervasive computing. However, despite their increasing capabilities in computation, communication, and sensin...
Oriana Riva, Jaakko Kangasharju
ICDCSW
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Contory: A Smart Phone Middleware Supporting Multiple Context Provisioning Strategies
This paper presents Contory, a middleware specifically deployed to support provisioning of context information on mobile devices such as smart phones. Contory integrates multiple...
Oriana Riva, Cristiano di Flora
AINA
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Experimental analysis of peer-to-peer streaming in cellular networks
In this paper, we study the adequacy of applying peer-topeer techniques to mobile networks by conducting a series of experiments using smart phones as peers. We measure important ...
Almudena Diaz-Zayas, Pedro Merino, Laura Panizo, A...
ICDS
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Smart Homecare System for Health Tele-monitoring
—  An increasing aged population worldwide puts our medical capabilities to the test. Research and commercial groups are investigating novel ways to care for the aged and chroni...
Peter Leijdekkers, Valérie Gay, Elaine Lawr...
DSN
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
How Do Mobile Phones Fail? A Failure Data Analysis of Symbian OS Smart Phones
While the new generation of hand-held devices, e.g., smart phones, support a rich set of applications, growing complexity of the hardware and runtime environment makes the devices...
Marcello Cinque, Domenico Cotroneo, Zbigniew Kalba...