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Smart house allows residents to access appliances and smart grid data to reconfigure its power consumption. This paper aims to provide security and privacy by design in a smart house, isolating appliances from direct Internet access, while allowing external entities to reach power consumption features. Data acquisition, processing, and consumer profiles updates are only possible inside a smart house,...
According to forecasts, by 2018 the number of mobile phone subscribers worldwide could cross the four billion barrier. Mauritius is also witnessing a major growth in mobile subscriptions and the total number of mobile subscriptions was 1,533,600 in 2013. Recently, there has been a growing concern with regards to the energy consumption of mobile phones which now amounts to a non-negligible figure given...
Mobile devices people carry in their pockets every day can use various means to connect to data services all around the Internet, e.g., 2G, 3G and WLAN. This has been an important development towards an easily accessible and always-on the Internet. While radio connectivity, bits rates in particular, has developed tremendously during the recent years, battery technology and electronics has not. Thus,...
Social networks are becoming more and more popular nowadays. The increasing capabilities of mobile phones enable them to participate in such networks. The phonebooks in the mobile devices represent social relationships, that can be integrated in the social networks. Following we refer to this solution as phonebook-centric social networks. Such networks provide a synchronization mechanism between phonebooks...
BitTorrent-based file-sharing is already available for mobile phones; however, its energy profile makes it difficult to use it for transferring large amount of data. This paper analyzes an alternative cloud-based solution that uses a remote server to download content via BitTorrent and transfer it to the mobile device in a transparent and energy efficient way. The system is evaluated via measurements...
With the proliferation of mobile fixed-power devices, energy consumption emerged as a vibrant research and development subject area in networking. Mobile devices are designed with several hard constraints such as low cost and small geometries, as well as, low heat dissipation, and operation using fixed power sources. Manufacturers have been adding an ever increasing set of features to small mobile...
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