Going Mobile:

Spacerace – A Location Based game for mobile phones using Assisted GPS

Mobile devices and wireless data connectivity are getting more and more common nowadays. In this networked world there are going to be dozens of new applications. Location Based Services will play a major role in this area. Especially, with the current and upcoming UMTS enabled mobile phones these applications are going to be available to a larger number of customers. The most promising approac...

Mobile communications going massive

Mobile communications have undergone an amazing development over the last few decades, with new generations coming out roughly every ten years. Each transition from one generation to the next has brought new capabilities and improved technology. The first generation was based on analogue technology and supported only traditional phone calls, while subsequent generations have become increasingly...

Going with the grain: mobile devices in practice

Just when you thought it was safe.

Teachers today have brought computers out of the isolation of labs and into the main learning area of the classroom, enabling access to the web for their students on demand. Whatever the merits of the so-called Digital Education Revolution, we now have computers, notebooks or PCs owned by the school or students, in classrooms , in most cases now playing a vitally important role in teaching and ...

Modeling of Terminal Mobility to Evaluate the Number of Location Updates

Since mobile user mobility behaviors can vary according to time periods, e.g. office-going/closing and office hours, the location management traffic load for tracking user positions is also a function of time. The transient characteristics of location management traffic vary according to users' initial starting positions. In this paper, we propose a mobile user mobility model considering office...