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mHealth4Afrika is a collaborative research and innovation project, co-funded under Horizon 2020. It is focused on supporting Sustainable Development Goal 3 and Horizon 2020 Societal challenges by developing, researching and evaluating the potential impact of co-designing an open source, multilingual enabled mHealth platform to support quality community-based primary maternal healthcare delivery at...
Delay-tolerant networks (DTN) are sparse mobile ad hoc networks where contemporaneous end-to-end path is typically not available. Therefore, nodes act as relays for each other to enable data delivery. The cooperation among mobile nodes however can be hindered by selfish users. Incentive schemes are inevitably introduced to regulate the behavior of DTN users. The motivation of this paper is to seek...
This paper mainly focuses on developing a joint cloud and wireless resource allocation algorithm based on evolutionary game (JRA-EG) considering mobile terminals' energy consumption and time delay as well as monetary cost in mobile edge computing environment. The mobile terminals (MTs) in different service areas form different populations. In addition, the competition among populations of MTs in different...
Modern browsers implement private mode to protect user privacy. However, they do not agree on what protection private mode should provide. We performed the first study on comparing private modes in popular desktop and mobile browsers and found many inconsistencies between different browsers and between the desktop and mobile versions of the same browser. We show that some inconsistencies result from...
The evolution of the new M2M/IoT paradigm suggests new applications in several fields. However, the unique characteristics of M2M communications pose different challenges in terms of connectivity and capacity with respect to the conventional telecommunications networks. In particular, the harmful locations where IoT devices could be deployed and the massive number of the devices to be connected require...
The main objective of this research project was to identify factors promoting the adoption of m-health and determine usability challenges in the existing m-health applications in Kenya. Specifically the study aimed at i) establishing the factors promoting adoption of M-health and, ii) determining the usability challenges in m-health applications in Kenya. Consequently an M-health prototype application...
An integral enabler of the smart city vision is the ability to effectively model collective population behaviour. The realisation of sustainable smart mobility is underpinned by the effective modelling of the spatial movements of the population. Furthermore, it is also crucial to identify significant deviations in collective behaviour over time. For example, a change in urban mobility patterns would...
We evaluate the downstream performance of our novel interoperator fixed-mobile network sharing, in which operators exchange data in their access networks. We propose a performance evaluation algorithm, and report credible performance evaluation results obtained for 204600 randomly-generated passive optical networks. We show that with the proposed sharing, operators can increase their access network...
The aim of this paper is to present the perceptions of the Travelers about the m-Health Technology. An empirical study was conducted to record travelers’ mobile technology usage behavior and their perceptions about a proposed idea for an m-Health application. A pilot mobile application which informs travelers for health issues automatically, according to their current location was developed...
The recent advancements in mobile network technologies and terminals have enabled ubiquitous Internet coverage, opening novel possibilities for public safety applications, and especially public warning and alerting. In this paper, we present the most recent results of the Austrian national project PASA (Public Warning and Alert System for Austria), the aim of which is to design, prototypically develop...
In this paper, we propose a formal energy model which allows an analytical study of energy consumption, for the first time in the context of population protocols (PP). In PP, anonymous and bounded memory agents move unpredictably and communicate in pairs. In order to illustrate the power and the usefulness of the proposed energy model, we develop a new power-aware protocol (EB-TTFM) for the task of...
In spite of the great potential for the development of mobile banking in Brazil, since the banking index reaches more than half of the population and the number of Internet users is even higher, this potential is not evenly distributed among the age groups in the country. Taking into account the tendency to resist new technologies as one ages, this study aimed to identify the factors which lead the...
Nowadays to make the right decision about where and how to request or buy a service, a user is often supported by a mobile device that offers more than simple descriptive data. Nevertheless, not all information on services is fully accessible. The difficulty in keeping track of changes in services' costs causes delays and can result in waste of time and money. In fact, the decision of which service...
Driven by the exponentially increasing amount of mobile video traffic, caching videos closer to the end users has become an appealing solution to reduce the traffic through the backbone network while improving users' perceived quality-of-experience (e.g., better video quality and reduced service delay). This research interest has been gaining lots of momentums due to the emergence of smart Access...
Among different components of urban mobility, urban freight transport is usually considered as the least sustainable. Limited traffic infrastructures and increasing demands in dense urban regions lead to frequent delivery runs with smaller freight vehicles. This increases the traffic in urban areas and has negative impacts upon the quality of life in urban populations. Data driven optimizations are...
The vision and mission of President Jokowi renders Indonesia as the global maritime axis i.e. triumphant Indonesia in the marine and maritime sectors. It reaffirmed Indonesia as progressive, prosperous, and sovereign nation based on marine economy, defense and maritime culture. The research aims to propose the problem-solving in preparing human resources' capability in Natuna Island and to bolster...
The studies of traditional human behavior dynamics and complex network of human communication are usually based on individuals or the groups. However, urban residents who are separated by urban road network and divided into different parts by spatial distance and geographical constraints, show different characteristics from the individuals and groups. In this paper, we study the dynamical characteristics...
The ubiquitous presence of smartphones worldwide is contributing to the field of mhealth. These devices are used to promote health in different approaches. Breast cancer is the most frequent cancer in the female population and the mortality rate remains increasing in Brazil, which has been associated to delayed diagnosis. Thus, we aimed to outline a mhealth system to mobilize the target women for...
In the past decades, Stampede accidents occurred around the world. In order to avoid these horrible emergencies, we designed a three-part system based on the mobile locators in smart phones to warn the related departments of the crowd gathering. This paper has two contributions: First, we apply routing predictions to crowd gathering, so we can predict the crowd density in specific areas in the future...
Individuals diagnosed with ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) often exhibit multiple challenging behaviors such as stereotyping, non-compliance, self-injuries, and aggression. The lack of a target behavior across schools, homes, and clinical settings not only impedes an individual learning on academic and self-help skills, but also disrupts their integration into school and society. To maintain the target...
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