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Showing 1 to 20 of 142 for “"mobile computing"”.
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Efficient mobile computing
… technological limitations, the new generation of mobile processors should have a better energy efficiency to support an acceptable battery life. On the other hand, TLP of current mobile applications is measured to be mostly less than 2, which implies mobile processors should have high performance …
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Enabling technology for mobile computing
… of this study was the launch of the first boxed mobile processor in the company's history. The technical component of the work consisted of the design and development of a thermal solution to complement the boxed processor. The organizational component involved an examination of the way the team …
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Enhanced mobile computing using cloud resources
… use of cloud resources for the enhancement of mobile computing. Mobile cloud computing refers to a distributed computing relationship between a resource-constrained mobile device and a remote high-capacity cloud resource. Investigation of prevailing trends has shown that this will be a key …
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Mobile computing with the Rover Toolkit
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1998.
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System Support For Energy Efficient Mobile Computing
<p>Mobile devices are developed rapidly and they have been an integrated part of our daily life. With the blooming of Internet of Things, mobile computing will become more and more important. However, the battery drain problem is a critical issue that hurts user experience. High performance devices …
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Overcoming middleware heterogeneity in mobile computing applications
… advances have fuelled the popularity of mobile computing. Mobile devices such as smart phones and personal digital assistants are becoming more commonly used due to the reduction in their size and increase of computational power. In addition, wireless network hotspots (in airports, hotels …
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Adaptive User Interfaces for Mobile Computing Devices
… the use of adaptive user interface elements on a mobile phone and presents two adaptive user interface approaches. The approaches attempt to increase the efficiency with which a user interacts with a mobile phone, while ensuring the interface remains predictable to a user. ¶ ...
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Adaptive User Interfaces for Mobile Computing Devices
… the use of adaptive user interface elements on a mobile phone and presents two adaptive user interface approaches. The approaches attempt to increase the efficiency with which a user interacts with a mobile phone, while ensuring the interface remains predictable to a user. ¶ ...
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Distributed dynamic channel allocation in mobile computing system
… problem is one of the most important issues in mobile computing networks. The purpose of this thesis is to develop a new distributed dynamic channel allocation algorithm. The proposed algorithm attempts to reuse channels in different cells to optimize the channel usage. It also assigns a large …
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Adaptive File System Consistency for Mobile Computing Environments
This dissertation presents the Mobile File and Adaptation System (MFAS), the first file system to be designed specially for partially connected operation. While MFAS supports the extreme modes of full connection and disconnection gracefully, its major innovation is in using the scarce, but …
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Balancing privacy needs with location sharing in mobile computing
Mobile phones are increasingly becoming tools for social interaction. As more phones come equipped with location tracking capabilities, capable of collecting and distributing personal information (including location) of their users, user control of location information and privacy for that matter, …
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Two factor authentication and authorization in ubiquitous mobile computing
Handheld devices, such as mobile phones, PDAs and others, have become an integrated part of our lives. They are perfectly suitable to become the first real-life platforms for mobile computing applications. A lightweight holistic authentication and authorization scheme is presented for this typical …
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An adaptive modelling infrastructure for context-aware mobile computing
… is inherently complex. Previous researches on mobile computing emphasize on programmable interfaces for development of context-aware systems. There are limited researches that emphasize on the modelling aspects of adaptive applications. This research aims at developing a complete infrastructure …
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Mobile Computing Device Adoption In Organizations: An Information-Processing Based View
Mobile computing devices have gained popularity in organizations. Various companies, government agencies, and academic institutions have seen a dramatic increase in employees' adoption of personal mobile devices. Current research has not provided clear explanations about the motivations behind …
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How open should an open system be? : essays on mobile computing
… as computers, telecom networks, and automobiles-are made up of multiple components. This dissertation comprises three essays that study the decisions of system innovators in mobile computing to "open" development of their systems to outside suppliers and the implications of doing so. The …
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Ergonomic, adaptable keyboard for fast data entry on mobile computing devices
… wireless, portable keyboard that would allow the mobile device user to achieve speeds closer to the desktop standard while performing text-entry tasks. Previously developed handheld input devices employ unfamiliar typing systems, are too large, or are not ergonomically comfortable, which may be …
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MedLAN: Compact mobile computing system for wireless information access in emergency hospital wards
As the need for faster, safer and more efficient healthcare delivery increases, medical consultants seek new ways of implementing a high quality telemedical system, using innovative technology. Until today, teleconsultation (the most common application of Telemedicine) was performed by transferring …
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SYNERGISTIC COMPUTING ON HETEROGENEOUS MULTIPROCESSOR
With the emerging demand for computations on mobile devices, heterogeneous multi-processors are dominating the mobile computing landscape. Heterogeneous multi-processors usually comprise of various components, including CPUs with different performance-power characteristics and application-specific …
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