Volunteer Computing is a kind of distributed computing that harnesses the aggregated spare
computing resources of volunteer devices. It provides a cheaper and greener alternative …

Crowd-enabled place-centric systems gather and reason over large mobile sensor datasets
and target everyday user locations (such as stores, workplaces, and restaurants). Such …

The rise of mobile devices and the Internet of Things has generated vast data which require
efficient processing methods. Volunteer Computing (VC) is a distributed network that utilises …

Every night, a large number of idle smartphones are plugged into a power source for
recharging the battery. Given the increasing computing capabilities of smartphones, these …

The smartphone revolution has brought ubiquitous, powerful, and connected sensing
hardware to the masses. This holds great promise for a wide range of research fields …

In this paper, we propose an energy efficient device discovery protocol, eDiscovery, as the
first step to bootstrapping opportunistic communications for smartphones, the most popular …

The growing interest in ubiquitous robotics has originated in the last years the development
of a high variety of testbeds. This paper presents a survey on existing ubiquitous robotics …

The PhantomNet facility allows experimenters to combine mobile networking, cloud
computing and software-defined networking in a single environment. It is an end-to-end …

In this paper, we propose an energy efficient device discovery protocol, eDiscovery, as the
first step to bootstrapping opportunistic communications for smartphones, the most popular …

Different forms of parallel computing have been proposed to address the high computational
requirements of many applications. Building on advances in parallel computing, volunteer …