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COMGEO
2011
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
What to do with 500M location requests a day?
Skyhook Wireless provides hybrid positioning to millions of mobile devices around the world. Using an approach that integrates cell, WiFi, and GPS signals, the system services ove...
Kipp Jones, Richard Sutton
ICDCN
2010
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Channel Assignment in Virtual Cut-through Switching Based Wireless Mesh Networks
Conventional wireless networks employ a contention based channel access mechanism, which not only imposes high latency but also reduces goodput of the network. Lack of interference...
Dola Saha, Aveek Dutta, Dirk Grunwald, Douglas C. ...
MOBISYS
2007
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Preserving location privacy in wireless lans
The broadcast and tetherless nature of wireless networks and the widespread deployment of Wi-Fi hotspots makes it easy to remotely locate a user by observing her wireless signals....
Tao Jiang, Helen J. Wang, Yih-Chun Hu
AICT
2009
IEEE
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15 years 6 months ago
A Practical Characterization of 802.11 Access Points in Paris
Unlike other wireless technologies, the deployment of 802.11 networks is not limited to operators: access points can easily be installed by end-users for domestic use. This singul...
Guillaume Valadon, Florian Le Goff, Christophe Ber...
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
Towards Mobile Phone Localization without War-Driving
Abstract—This paper identifies the possibility of using electronic compasses and accelerometers in mobile phones, as a simple and scalable method of localization without war-dri...
Ionut Constandache, Romit Roy Choudhury, Injong Rh...