International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications: Volume 11 Issue 1

An optimized travelling time estimation mechanism for minimizing handover failures and unnecessary handovers from cellular networks to WLANs

Adnan Mahmood, Hushairi Zen, Al-Khalid Othman

The paper aims to propose an optimized handover necessity estimation scheme for a mobile terminal (MT) traversing from a third-generation (3G) cellular network into the wireless…

Network analysis on Skype end-to-end video quality

George Exarchakos, Luca Druda, Vlado Menkovski, Antonio Liotta

This paper aims to argue on the efficiency of Quality of Service (QoS)-based adaptive streaming with regards to perceived quality Quality of Experience (QoE). Although QoS…

A policy-based middleware for context-aware pervasive computing

Mehdia Ajana El Khaddar, Mhammed Chraibi, Hamid Harroud, Mohammed Boulmalf, Mohammed Elkoutbi, Abdelilah Maach

This paper aims to demonstrate that a policy-based middleware solution which facilitates the development of context-aware applications and the integration of the heterogeneous…

Switchable dual band equilateral triangular microstrip patch antenna using pin diode

Prabal Pratap, Ravinder Singh Bhatia, Binod Kumar

The purpose of this paper is to study and calculate the electrical characteristic of an equilateral triangular microstrip patch antenna that is proposed for dual frequency…

Mobile social network in proximity: taxonomy, approaches and open challenges

Chii Chang, Satish Narayana Srirama, Sea Ling

Recent smart mobile devices are capable of letting users produce various digital content, and share/upload the content to many social network services (SNS) directly via wireless…

Power-saving localization techniques for mobile devices: A comparison between iOS and Android

Wolfgang Narzt

This paper aims to develop generic strategies for improving energy consumption for location sensing on smartphones and compares the results of iOS and Android implementations…