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Mobile applications (apps), because of their utility, are receiving considerable attention. Manufacturers of mobile terminals and cellular service providers advertise their apps and thereby create incentives to sell their terminals/services. Although the apps being built possess options to alter their specific behavior, they are not designed to link with apps developed by other entities. Unless development...
As mobile applications become more pervasive and the demand for affordable mobile broadband Internet access grows, bandwidth sharing solutions via IEEE 802.11-based technology populate the telecommunications market. Many of the existing solutions are based on the willingness of Internet user communities to share their broadband connection at home. However, some other access sharing models have introduce...
This paper looks into the implementation details of network coding for a mobile application running on commercial mobile phones. The mobile application coined PictureViewer can convey pictures from one source device to many neighboring devices using WiFi. The advantage of network coding in this context is that the source devices only needs a minimal amount of knowledge about the targets received packets...
Location-based services are playing an increasingly important role in the rapidly evolving world of mobile applications. Despite this importance, there are numerous challenges to providing a widely implemented and usable service that spans multiple places, devices, and location technologies. This paper describes WhereAmI, a unique location services testbed that addresses these challenges and is enabling...
The objective of this research was to investigate the possibilities of using mobile applications and mobile devices in university environment. The research integrates several existing technology adoption models and then for the needs of the research conducted and develop a case study experiment. The objective was to raise the communication level and accessibility, as well as the dissemination of knowledge...
Although much public attention has focused on the US digital TV transition- and the resulting reallocation of analog TV channels by auction to wireless carriers - the US Federal Communications Commission will decide how to reallocate an even larger swath of prime TV band spectrum this year: the unused "white space" between occupied DTV channels. This reallocation of unused spectrum from...
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