Mobile micro-clouds are promising for enabling performance-critical cloud applications.
However, one challenge therein is the dynamics at the network edge. In this paper, we study …

This paper presents a mobile tracking scheme that exploits the predictability of user mobility
patterns in wireless PCS networks. In this scheme, a mobile's future location is predicted by …

The user mobility pattern (UMP) scheme is introduced for location update and paging in
wireless systems where mobile terminals (MTs) maintain their history data in a database …

The rapid progress of mobile, wireless communication and embedded micro-sensing MEMS
technologies has brought about the rise of pervasive computing. Wireless local-area …

Recently, an ad-hoc mobile cloud has emerged as a promising architecture, which allows a
mobile user to offload its computation tasks to nearby mobile devices, namely mobile …

Mobility management plays a central role in providing ubiquitous communications services
in future wireless mobile networks. In mobility management, there are two key operations …

Location management is a key issue in personal communication service (PCS) networks.
Performance analysis plays important roles in the implementation of location management …

In this paper, we propose a stochastic model to compute the optimal update boundary for the
distance-based location update algorithm. The proposed model is flexible and captures …

Location management is a key issue in personal communication service networks to
guarantee the mobile terminals to continuously receive services when moving from one …

Hand gestures are intuitive ways to interact with a variety of user interfaces. We developed a
real-time finger tracking technique using the Microsoft Kinect as an input device and …