—In this paper, we describe a practical realization of an Internet-of-Things (IoT) architecture at the University of Padova, Italy. Our network spans the floors of different bui...
Angelo Paolo Castellani, Nicola Bui, Paolo Casari,...
A key prerequisite for residential energy conservation is knowing when and where energy is being spent. Unfortunately, the current generation of energy reporting devices only prov...
Younghun Kim, Thomas Schmid, Zainul Charbiwala, Ma...
Due to the increasing penetration of mobile phones even into poor communities, mobile payment schemes could bring formal financial services to the "unbanked". However, b...
Indrani Medhi, S. N. Nagasena Gautama, Kentaro Toy...
We propose a peer-to-peer architecture designed to overcome asymmetries in upload/download speeds that are typical in end-user dialup, broadband and cellular wireless Internet con...
Sachin Agarwal, Moshe Laifenfeld, Ari Trachtenberg...
Information systems outsourcing has been viewed as an attractive option by many senior managers generally because of the belief that IS outsourcing vendors can achieve economies o...