We quantify and derive a general model for the collaboration stability of human mobility and demonstrate its importance for networking applications. Our results demonstrate that collaboration opportunities are highly dependent on the context where they ...

As the increased capacity of 5G has changed the process of viewing, managing, and controlling data security, it also brings added security concerns.

Despite widespread interest in edge computing and various successful implementations, some confusion remains about the technology. The author revisits the rationale for edge computing, highlights relevant applications, surveys the latest research and ...

Computer Society celebrates its 70th anniversary by looking back at the accomplishments of its members and volunteers. This issue celebrates the volunteers who helped create the 802 Standards.

A student team from NC State designed and built a prototype wireless network to monitor the milking and weighing of cows.

A wireless electrocardiogram case study suggests that current CDMA2000 cellular technology has considerable potential in medical telemetry. Modifications to the network protocol stack ensure the highest data integrity and lowest service delay.

Ubiquitous computing technologies enable new in situ data-collection opportunities that can reveal insights into mobile users' behaviors and preferences.

As mobile computing has been more widely adopted in recent years, proponents have said location-based services could have a bright future. However, LBS has failed to take off in the marketplace yet.

To eliminate cables and provide installation flexibility, consumers want the various elements of their home-entertainment systems to communicate wirelessly. In response, vendors are developing wireless high-definition video technologies.

Wireless sensor networks will potentially affect all aspects of our lives, bringing about substantial improvements in a broad spectrum of modern technologies ranging from healthcare to military surveillance.

Radio-frequency identification technology provides promising benefits such as inventory visibility and business process automation. However, if companies are to realize these benefits, researchers must address major challenges such as data processing, ...

Femtocells help eliminate spotty mobile phone reception indoors by connecting users to the wireless network via broadband Internet links, not the telephony infrastructure.

Vendors have started releasing the first products certified as complying with the IEEE's fast, long-range mobile WiMax standard. Proponents hope mobile WiMax will compete with cellular, Wi-Fi, and last-mile Internet-access technologies

Teaching computer programming with simple wireless mobile applications provides the practical development experience students need.

ActivityStudio lets designers easily manage moderate-scale in situ user tests of ubicomp applications.

A novel ICT project in rural India uses long-distance Wi-Fi networking to enable high-quality videoconferencing between eye hospitals and remote village clinics. The project highlights the importance of sustainability as a first-class goal for systems ...

Topics include a research chip that provides fast short-range wireless communications, a product that provides peer-to-peer Wi-Fi services, a technology that could great increase laptop-battery life, and a headset that would let users control computer ...

With smart-phone use growing rapidly and devices gaining more capabilities that create possible vulnerabilities, experts think mobile malware finally might be about to become an important issue.

Healthcare providers could use ad hoc networks to supplement the sometimes spotty and unreliable coverage of infrastructure-oriented wireless networks for patient monitoring. A proposed incentive-based approach encourages devices to cooperate as routers,...

ARM and its partners are trying to build more powerful handheld computing devices, while Intel is trying to make a handheld PC based on the company's x86 architecture.