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SIGSOFT
2007
ACM
16 years 7 months ago
CTG: a connectivity trace generator for testing the performance of opportunistic mobile systems
The testing of the performance of opportunistic communication protocols and applications is usually done through simulation as i) deployments are expensive and should be left to t...
Roberta Calegari, Mirco Musolesi, Franco Raimondi,...
PERCOM
2006
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Efficient Data Harvesting in Mobile Sensor Platforms
In this paper we study the use of vehicles as sensors in a "vehicular sensor network," a new network paradigm that is critical for gathering valuable information in urba...
Uichin Lee, Eugenio Magistretti, Biao Zhou, Mario ...
MOBISYS
2007
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Improving mobile database access over wide-area networks without degrading consistency
We report on the design, implementation, and evaluation of a system called Cedar that enables mobile database access with good performance over low-bandwidth networks. This is acc...
Niraj Tolia, Mahadev Satyanarayanan, Adam Wolbach
CHI
2010
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Let's play chinese characters: mobile learning approaches via culturally inspired group games
In many developing countries such as India and China, low educational levels often hinder economic empowerment. In this paper, we argue that mobile learning games can play an impo...
Feng Tian, Fei Lv, Jingtao Wang, Hongan Wang, Wenc...
MM
2009
ACM
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16 years 1 months ago
On statistical multiplexing of variable-bit-rate video streams in mobile systems
We consider the problem of broadcasting multiple variable-bit-rate (VBR) video streams from a base station to many mobile devices over a wireless network, so that: (i) perceived q...
Cheng-Hsin Hsu, Mohamed Hefeeda