New fiber and textile materials and miniaturized electronic components make it possible to
create truly usable smart clothes. These intelligent clothes are worn like ordinary clothing …

In this paper a performance comparison of a probabilistic Gaussian-Kernel fingerprint-based
indoor positioning method over different smartphones, is presented. The work aims at …

Although smartphone applications represent the most typical data consumer tool from the
citizen perspective in environmental applications, they can also be used for in-situ data …

Mobile Cloud Computing enables augmenting mobile device capabilities and increasing
battery lifetime through the extension of cloud services and resources, resulting in an …

Green computing has emerged as a hot topic leading to a need to understand energy
consumption of computations. This need also extends to devices with limited resources as …

Abstract The Internet of Things vision proposes a global platform in an unforeseen scale for
distributed applications that rely on data provided by interconnected resource-constrained …

The LTE standard has been developed for high-bandwidth mobile access for today's data-
heavy applications. With broadband cellular available already from the UMTS system, users …

Enterprise apps on mobile devices typically need to communicate with other system
components by consuming web services. Since most of the current mobile device platforms …

Web services (WS) implements Service-Oriented Architecture. WS extends World Wide Web
infrastructure. This provides a means of integrating software applications in loosely coupled …

XML-based communication governs most of today's systems communication, due to its
capability of representing complex structural and hierarchical data. However, XML document …