To ensure user satisfaction and success of mobile applications, it is important to provide
highly performant applications. This is particularly important for resource-constrained …

Rich-sensor smart phones have made possible the recent birth of the mobile sensing
research area as part of ubiquitous sensing which integrates other areas such as wireless …

The smartphone has become an important part of our daily lives. However, the user
experience is still far from being optimal. In particular, despite the rapid hardware upgrades …

We present a fast and efficient hash algorithm based on a generalized chaotic mapping with
variable parameters in this paper. We first define a generalized chaotic mapping by utilizing …

With the rapid advancement in edge computing, a recent trend is to migrate data processing
from data centers to the edge to avoid long data transmission latencies. Databases, as an …

Energy consumption is a key concern for mobile devices. Prior research has focused on the
screen and the network as the major sources of energy consumption. Through carefully …

Nowadays, no one questions the crucial role of Requirements Engineering in software
systems development. Specifically, if apps are generated for execution on mobile devices …

Our study reveals that facilitating warm launch of just five smartphone applications is
extremely expensive, using up to 36 percent of memory. Further investigation of 20 popular …

Smart Home environments aim to integrate physical devices, human beings and computing
entities in homes and buildings. They have to support characteristics coming from mobile …

WiFi effectively has two extremes: low power consumption and high latency, or low latency
and high power consumption. WiFi Power Save Mode saves energy by trading added …