Buddy-finder: a proposal for a novel entertainment application for GSM

2016 13th IEEE Annual Consumer Communications &Amp; Networking Conference (CCNC)

Bujari

2016

Cities have evolved as a natural environment for cars rather than people. This has limited people's ability to move around, living and interacting with the urban space affecting the experienced quality of life. Clearly, this regards all of us and, in particular, people affected by impairments. One of the main barriers in building services to fill the gap between the urban environment and people living in it is surprisingly represented by the lack of information. Think for instance to Google maps; you can ask for a path between any two destinations and you will receive a response with the shortest path whether you are travelling by car, public transportation or just walking. Yet, there is no path or information available regarding people on a wheelchair or blind. Instead, we discuss in this paper how the vast popularity of sensor-endowed smartphones can be exploited to create unprecedented services able to improve the interaction with the environment, the social inclusion and the quality of life.

Fostering accessible urban mobility through smart mobile applications

2016 13th IEEE Annual Consumer Communications &Amp; Networking Conference (CCNC)

Bujari

2016

MDTN: Mobile Delay/Disruption Tolerant Network

2011 Proceedings of 20th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN)

Bujari

Bonetta

et al. 2011

Infrastructure networks like Internet have some coverage gaps (e.g. rural areas) where no service connectivity is provided. Cellular networks could be used in alternative but they usually associate their services with a usage cost. Nowadays, the growing number of mobile devices equipped with a wireless interface and the end-user trend to shift toward wireless technology has opened new possibilities for networking. Opportunistic networking seems a feasible solution in filling in these coverage gaps by providing service connectivity where it is not sustained by an infrastructure. In this context we provide a delay tolerant platform that ensures service connectivity where it is absent. Our approach follows the Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) paradigm by implementing a store-andforward communication model between mobile users and carrier entities (e.g. buses), where a user delegates the carrier a task (bundle), the carrier stores it locally and whenever service connectivity is available (e.g. wi-fi at the bus station) tries to accomplish it, successively notifying the user of the task output next time they encounter again.

Ubiquitous Social Cams

Gaggi

Moretti

2012 21st International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN)

2012

Web 2.0 is evolving and offering services based on the wide popularity of smartphones and the possibility of gathering data ubiquitously from these mobile devices; this new paradigm is often referred to as Web2. In this paper, we hence present and discuss a Web2 application designed to enable users to interact with remote smartphones' cameras to receive a video generated in real time. In essence, users can individuate on a map which mobile cameras are available in a location of interest and request the remote user to generate and send back a short video of the surrounding environment or event. We discuss technical issues related to implementing such a service and the solutions we devised to address them. Finally, we also present experimental results we obtained from a preliminary testbed evaluation that encourages the prosecution of this work