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Cellular networks are facing a big challenge emerging from excessive increase in signaling traffic due to background activities on smartphones. The excessive signaling if not properly managed contributes to signaling storms causing outages in mobile networks and poor quality of service, especially during peak times. For smartphone users, device-specific excessive signaling traffic caused by mobile...
Mobile data collection systems (MDCS) in the health sector are of great benefit to health care providers and community workers especially in low-resource settings. MDCS enable the extension and provision of health services closer to the community by enabling data collection and diagnosis without the patient being in a hospital setting. MDCS, however, face a number security challenges including authentication...
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The iPhone SDK provides a powerful platform for the development of applications that make use of iPhone capabilities, such as sensors, GPS, Wi‐Fi, or Bluetooth connectivity. We observe that so far the development of iPhone applications has mostly been restricted to using Objective‐C. However, developing applications in plain Objective‐C on the iPhone OS suffers from limitations, such as the need for...
Set the date range to filter the displayed results. You can set a starting date, ending date or both. You can enter the dates manually or choose them from the calendar.