When a mobile user dials 911, a key to arriving to the emergency scene promptly is knowing the location of the mobile user. This paper presents SkyLoc, a GSM fingerprinting-based ...
Alex Varshavsky, Anthony LaMarca, Jeffrey Hightowe...
This paper shows the use of protocols dynamically generated for a particular network environment and an application’s requirements. We have developed a novel system called PNUT (...
This paper explores the feasibility of a cost-efficient storage architecture that offers the reliability and access performance characteristics of a high-end system. This architec...
—The pervasive diffusion of mobile communication devices and the technical improvements of location techniques are fostering the development of new applications that use the phys...
Claudio Agostino Ardagna, Marco Cremonini, Sabrina...
Context switching imposes a performance penalty on threads in a multitasking environment. The source of this penalty is both direct overhead due to running the context switch code...
Francis M. David, Jeffrey C. Carlyle, Roy H. Campb...