Introduction: Digital Revolution - Mobile Revolution? -- Mobile Telephony: Realising the Dream of Ideal Communication? -- History Repeating? A Comparison of the Launch and Uses of Fixed and Mobile Phones -- Kids will be Kids: The Role of Mobiles in Teenage Life -- An SMS History -- Emotional Attachment to Mobile Phones: An Extraordinary Relationship -- Textmates and Text Circles: Insights into …
Research Questions for the Evolving Communications Landscape -- Mobile Back to Front: Uncertainty and Danger in the Theory—Technology Relation -- Wi-Fi Networks and the Reorganization of Wireline—Wireless Relationship -- Mobile Phones as Fashion Statements: The Co-creation of Mobile Communication’s Public Meaning -- Behavioral Changes at the Mobile Workplace: A Symbolic Interactionistic A…
Understanding the Interactions between Unicast and Group Communications Sessions in Ad Hoc Networks -- Cross-Layer Simulation and Optimization for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks -- Improving TCP Performance over Wireless Networks Using Loss Differentiation Algorithms -- TCP Performances in a Hybrid Broadcast/Telecommunication System -- Handoff Notification in Wireless Hybrid Networks -- Selective Activ…
An Overlapping Communication Protocol Using Improved Time-Slot Leasing for Bluetooth WPANs -- Full-Duplex Transmission on the Unidirectional Links of High-Rate Wireless PANs -- Server Supported Routing: A Novel Architecture and Protocol to Support Inter-vehicular Communication -- Energy-Efficient Aggregate Query Evaluation in Sensor Networks -- Data Sampling Control and Compression in Sensor Ne…
Advanced Issues in Ad-Hoc Networking -- Highly Scalable Routing Strategies: Dztr Routing Protocol -- Localised Minimum Spanning Tree Flooding in Ad-Hoc Networks -- A Presence System for Autonomous Networks -- Secure Routing Protocols for Mobile Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks -- Cross Layer Design for Ad-Hoc Networks -- Ideas for Advanced Mobility Support -- Federated Service Platform Solutions for He…
Invited Presentations -- Another Look at Dynamic Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks -- Routing in Wireless Networks and Local Solutions for Global Problems -- Contributed Papers -- Equilibria for Broadcast Range Assignment Games in Ad-Hoc Networks -- Efficient Mechanisms for Secure Inter-node and Aggregation Processing in Sensor Networks -- Cluster-Based Framework in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks -- Randomiz…
Application-Oriented Designs -- Building Applications from a Web Service based Component Architecture -- Components for High-Performance Grid Programming in Grid.IT -- Towards Building a Generic Grid Services Platform: A Component-Oriented Approach -- A Solution for Adapting Legacy Code as Web Services -- Middleware Architecture -- A Graphical Modeling Environment for the Generation of Workflow…
Keynote -- Location Awareness: Potential Benefits and Risks -- Context Information Management and Distribution -- Context Modelling and Management in Ambient-Aware Pervasive Environments -- A Context Architecture for Service-Centric Systems -- Towards Realizing Global Scalability in Context-Aware Systems -- Positioning Sensor Systems I -- Towards LuxTrace: Using Solar Cells to Measure Distance …
to polarization mode dispersion in optical systems -- Modelling of polarization mode dispersion in optical communications systems -- Statistical properties of polarization mode dispersion -- Three Representations of Polarization Mode Dispersion -- The inverse PMD problem -- Numerical modeling of PMD -- Applications of importance sampling to polarization mode dispersion -- PMD & PDL -- Interacti…
A Background for Networked Digital Media -- Digital Coding of Audio and Video -- Communication Networks and Technologies -- Internet Protocols, Services and Software -- Media Protocols and Applications.This text is a light technical introduction to the three technical foundations for multimedia applications across the Internet: communications (principles, technologies and networking), compressi…