Mobile Opportunistic Networks:

Mobile Opportunistic Networks:

Architectures, Protocols and Applications
Mieso K. Denko,
Aue rbach | 2011 | ISBN: 1420088122
290 pages | PDF | 3,7 MB

The widespread availability of mobile devices coupled with recent advancements in networking capabilities make opportunistic networks one of the most promising technologies for next-generation mobile applications. Are you ready to make your mark?

Featuring the contributions of prominent researchers from academia and industry, Mobile Opportunistic Networks: Architectures, Protocols and Applications introduces state-of-the-art research findings, technologies, tools, and innovations. From fundamentals to advanced concepts, the book provides the comprehensive technical coverage of this rapidly emerging communications technology you need to make contributions in this area.

The first section focuses on modeling, networking architecture, and routing problems. The second section examines opportunistic networking technologies and applications. Presenting the latest in modeling opportunistic network connection structures and pairwise contacts, the text discusses the fundamentals of opportunistic routing. It reviews the most-popular routing protocols and introduces a routing protocol for delivering data with load balancing and reliable transmission capabilities.

Details an approach to analyzing user behavior based on realistic data in opportunistic networks
Presents analytical approaches for mobility and heterogeneous connections management in mobile opportunistic networks
Compares credit-based incentive schemes for mobile wireless ad hoc networks and challenged networks
Discusses the combined strengths of cache-based approaches and Infostation-based approaches

Addressing key research challenges and open issues, this complete technical guide reports on the latest advancements in the deployment of stationary relay nodes on vehicular opportunistic networks. It also illustrates the use of the service location and planning (SLP) technique for resource utilization with quality of service (QoS) constraints in opportunistic capability utilization networks. The book introduces a novel prediction-based routing protocol, and supplies authoritative coverage of communication architectures, network algorithms and protocols, emerging applications, industrial and professional standards, and experimental studies—including simulation tools and implementation test beds.

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Designing Mobile Interfaces

Designing Mobile Interfaces
PDF | 584 pages | 19.8Mb

Designing Mobile Interfaces (Otx) /by Steven Hoober and Eric Berkman. With hundreds of thousands of mobile applications available today, your app has to capture users immediately. This book provides practical techniques to help you catch—and keep—their attention. You’ll learn core principles for designing effective user interfaces, along with a set of common patterns for interaction design on all types of mobile devices.

Mobile design specialists Steven Hoober and Eric Berkman have collected and researched 76 best practices for everything from composing pages and displaying information to the use of screens, lights, and sensors. Each pattern includes a discussion of the design problem and solution, along with variations, interaction and presentation details, and antipatterns.

Compose pages so that information is easy to locate and manipulate
Provide labels and visual cues appropriate for your app’s users
Use information control widgets to help users quickly access details
Take advantage of gestures and other sensors
Apply specialized methods to prevent errors and the loss of user-entered data
Enable users to easily make selections, enter text, and manipulate controls
Use screens, lights, haptics, and sounds to communicate your message and increase user satisfaction.

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