Browsing by Subject "Mobile telecommunication systems"
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Adaptive notch filter using real-time parameter estimation
(2011)The control of flexible systems is often difficult due to the exact frequencies of the elastic modes being hard to identify. These flexible modes may change over time, or vary between units of the same system. The variation ...
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Book Chapter
Addressing device-based adaptation of services: A model driven web service oriented development approach
(IGI Global, 2014)The rapid growth of the mobile devices market and the increasing requirements of mobile users augment the need to develop Web Service clients that could be deployed and run on both mobile and desktop devices. Different ...
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Blocking reduction for distributed transaction processing within MANETs
(2009)Atomic commit protocols for distributed transactions in mobile ad-hoc networks have to consider message delays and network failures. We consider ad-hoc network scenarios, in which participants hold embedded databases and ...
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A compact multiband monopole antenna with a defected ground plane
(2008)A compact multiband antenna is proposed that consists of a printed circular disc monopole antenna with an L-shaped slot cut out of the ground, forming a defected ground plane. Analysis of the current distribution on the ...
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Crowdsourcing emergency data in non-operational cellular networks
(2017)In overloaded or partially broken (i.e., non-operational) cellular networks, it is imperative to enable communication within the crowd to allow the management of emergency and crisis situations. To this end, a variety of ...
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Conference Object
DermaTrack: A skin cancer tracking intelligent application
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2017)Although, one in five humans living in high risk areas will develop skin cancer during a lifetime, there is currently no mechanism to help humans track the development of skin moles. DermaTrack, the application described ...
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A discrete event based simulation environment for enhanced UMTS 3 rd generation networks
(2004)This paper presents a new system level simulator that has been developed to evaluate E-UMTS (Enhanced Universal Mobile Telecommunication Systems) 3G Networks. The article describes how the simulator supports different ...
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Distributed adaptation reasoning for a mobility and adaptation enabling middleware
(2006)The prospect of adaptive, mobile applications provides both opportunity and challenge to the application developers. Adaptive, mobile applications are designed to constantly adapt to the contextual conditions with the aim ...
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Efficient online state tracking using sensor networks
(2006)Sensor networks are being deployed for tracking events of interest in many environmental or monitoring applications. Because of their distributed nature of operation, a challenging issue is how to accurately identify the ...
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Enabling cross-platform mobile application development: A context-aware middleware
(2014)The emergence of mobile computing has changed the rules of web application development. Since context-awareness has become almost a necessity in mobile applications, web applications need to adapt to this new reality. A ...
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Enabling the deployment of mobile services for end-users: the SMS approach
(2013)Service provision in mobile environments is nowadays moving toward easiness and openness. The end-user’s role in this procedure can be supported through platforms that encourage user’s participation. This is critical toward ...
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Conference Object
Enhanced UMTS cellular planning for multiple traffic classes in offices scenarios
(2006)It is shown that Enhanced UMTS will be an affordable solution for providing the required network quality and to reduce infrastructure investments in offices scenarios. System capacity results are obtained by using a system ...
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Enhanced UMTS cost/revenue optimisation in offices scenarios
(2005)In this paper Enhanced UMTS offices scenarios and classes of services up to wideband are taken into account. A model is proposed for optimising Enhanced UMTS based in costs and revenues. A system level simulator is used ...
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Enhanced UMTS simulation-based planning in office scenarios
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2006)Enhanced UMTS traffic characterisation parameters have been addressed for the offices scenario. By using a system level simulator, results concerning QoS measures as packet delay, blocking and handover failure probabilities ...
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Human Mobility Computing and Privacy: Fad or Reality?
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015)The advent of mobile computing and sensing technologies, in conjunction with omni-present and high-speed mobile networks, allow nowadays the capture of human mobility data at an extremely high fidelity. Modern mobile ...
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Intermediary infrastructures for the World Wide Web
(2004)Intermediaries are software entities, deployed on hosts of the wireline and wireless network, that mediate the interaction between clients and servers of the World Wide Web. In this paper we present a survey of intermediaries, ...
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Key issues for the design and development of mobile commerce services and applications
(2005)This paper suggests a new approach for developing m-commerce services and applications based on a scheme that divides m-applications into directory- and transaction-oriented classes, identifies mobile user requirements, ...
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m-health e-emergency systems: Current status and future directions
(2007)Rapid advances in wireless communications and networking technologies, linked with advances in computing and medical technologies, facilitate the development and offering of emerging mobile systems and services in the ...
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Conference Object
An m-health system for continuous monitoring of children with suspected cardiac arrhythmias
(2008)In this study, we present a mobile health (m-Health) system that will be used for continuous monitoring of children with suspected cardiac arrhythmias. The system is able to do real-time acquisition and transmission of ECG ...
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MBMS Handover Control for efficient multicasting in IP-based 3G mobile networks
(2006)Handover Control in a cellular infrastructure aims to provide continuity of mobile services to a user traveling over cell boundaries. So far, Handover Control is considered only between cells supporting the service using ...