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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 phones have become essential part of our life in the last 15 years. All mobile phones have a lot of common features, but their individual style or design, and special functions make these devices salable. However there is an important accessory - the charger - which does the same task to reach the same goal from the beginning, but on a wide range of implementation. A few years ago, GSMA (in...
Using proxy servers to cache and shape network traffic can significantly improve the energy efficiency of the participating mobile clients. In this article, we analyze the implications of hosting a BitTorrent proxy on a broadband router, which pushes the content to a mobile phone over wireless radio (WLAN or 3G). The amount of memory in a router is limited; therefore, our interest is in how to efficiently...
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,...
We investigated consumer attitudes towards energy consumption of mobile phones and mobile services with a questionnaire study among Finnish university students (N = 150). Our questions covered topics like how battery consumption affected phone and application selection and configuration, what effect different battery levels had on user behavior, what kind of recharging policies were used, how satisfied...
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...
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