Commodity smartphones and tablet devices now come equipped with a variety of sensors, including accelerometers, multiple positioning sensors, magnetic compasses, and inertial sens...
Lenin Ravindranath, Calvin C. Newport, Hari Balakr...
Effective caching in Domain Name System (DNS) is critical to its performance and scalability. Existing DNS only supports weak cache consistency by using the Time-To-Live (TTL) mec...
Spatial alarms are considered as one of the basic capabilities in future mobile computing systems for enabling personalization of location-based services. In this paper, we propos...
Bhuvan Bamba, Ling Liu, Arun Iyengar, Philip S. Yu
— Recent advances in communication and mobile computing have made it possible for cellular networks and digital broadcasting systems to converge on the basis of their common mult...
Emergencies happen frequently and handling them effectively is necessary. In many cases, emergencies are treated by a static procedure, without considering the requirements of th...