The use of mobile data services is in high demand ever since the advent of smartphones and is expected to increase further with the evolution of various services and applications for future mobile devices. This excessive use of data has caused severe bottlenecks within the mobile networks due to overloading. The route towards network upgrades is an expensive one especially due to the high licen...

This paper presents work in progress regarding utilization of social network information for mobile applications. Primarily a number of challenges are identified, such as how to mine data from multiple social networks, how to integrate and consolidate social networks, and how to manage semantic information for mobile applications. The challenges are discussed from a semantic Web perspective usi...

by extending wireless networks and because of their different nature, some attacks appear in these networks which did not exist in wired networks. security is a serious challenge for actual implementation in wireless networks. due to lack of the fixed infrastructure and also because of security holes in routing protocols in mobile ad hoc networks, these networks are not protected against attack...

Community networks are created to facilitate the development and management of information and activity in a proximate community. Porting community networks to different hardware platforms, like handheld devices, will afford universal channels of accessibility and enhanced opportunities for collaboration. We argue that mobile community networks offer richer interactions than just desktop-based ...