Abstract. Features provide extensions to a basic service, but in new systems users require much greater flexibility oriented towards their needs. Traditional features do not easil...
Short Message Service (SMS) has become extremely popular in many countries, and represents a multibillion dollars market. Yet many consumers consider that the price cellular netwo...
Fieldbus networks have significantly improved flexibility and management in classic building automation domains. However, the costs of such installations are still greatly affec...
We build an efficient and reliable data transport protocol on top of the Short Message Service (SMS). We conduct a series of experiments to characterize SMS behaviour under bursty...
As an alternative to ad hoc wireless sensor networks, we propose to utilize the mobile devices that are carried by people who walk along the site on which the sensors are deployed....