Karahoca Adem. Advances and Applications in Mobile Computing

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ADVANCES AND
APPLICATIONS IN
MOBILE COMPUTING

Edited by Adem Karahoca
Advances and Applications in Mobile Computing
Edited by Adem Karahoca

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Advances and Applications in Mobile Computing, Edited by Adem Karahoca
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ISBN 978-953-51-0432-2

Contents

Preface IX
Part 1 Mobile Network Technologies 1
Chapter 1 Algorithms of Mobile Network Development
Using Software-Defined Radio Technology 3
Larysa Globa and Vasyl Kurdecha
Chapter 2 Advanced Energy Efficient Communication
Techniques for Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks 27
Marios I. Poulakis,
Athanasios D. Panagopoulos and Philip Constantinou
Chapter 3 A Low-Overhead Non-Block Check Pointing and
Recovery Approach for Mobile Computing Environment 47
Bidyut Gupta, Ziping Liu and Sindoora Koneru
Part 2 Mobile Software Life Cycle 63
Chapter 4 Supporting Inclusive Design of
Mobile Devices with a Context Model 65
Pierre T. Kirisci, Klaus-Dieter Thoben,
Patrick Klein, Martin Hilbig,
Markus Modzelewski, Michael Lawo,
Antoinette Fennell, Joshue O’Connor,
Thomas Fiddian, Yehya Mohamad,
Markus Klann, Thomas Bergdahl,
Haluk Gökmen and Edmilson Klen
Chapter 5 Software Testing Strategy for Mobile Phone 89
Guitao Cao, Jie Yang,
Qing Zhou and Weiting Chen
Chapter 6 MSpace: An Emergent Approach,
Modelling and Exploring Mutable Business-Entities 115
Mohamed Dbouk,
Hamid Mcheick and Ihab Sbeity
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Part 3 Mobile Applications as Service 137
Chapter 7 Mobile Technologies Applied to
Hospital Automation 139
Cicília Raquel Maia Leite, Glaucia R.M.A. Sizilio,
Anna G.C.D. Ribeiro, Ricardo A.M. Valentim,
Pedro F.R. Neto and Ana M.G. Guerreiro
Chapter 8 Mobile Health –
Monitoring of SaO and Pressure 161
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Nilton Serigioli, Edgar Charry Rodriguez and Rodrigo Reina Muñoz
Chapter 9 Designing an Interactive Museum Guide:
A Case Study for Mobile Software Development 185
Dilek Karahoca and Adem Karahoca
Chapter 10 CARS-AD Project: Context-Aware
Recommender System for Authentication
Decision in Pervasive and Mobile Environments 201
João Carlos Damasceno Lima, Cristiano Cortez da Rocha,
Iara Augustin and Mário Antônio Ribeiro Dantas

Preface

Advances and Applications in Mobile Computing targets to help mobile solutions related
scholars, developers, engineers and managers. The main contribution of this book is
enhancing mobile software application development stages as analysis, design,
development and test. Also, recent mobile network technologies such as algorithms,
decreasing energy consumption in mobile network, and fault tolerance in distributed
mobile computing are the main concern of the first section of the book. In the mobile
software life cycle section, the chapter on human computer interaction discusses
mobile device handset design strategies, following the chapters on mobile application
testing strategies. The last chapter in this section covers the topic on building suitable
business intelligence-like prototype using the Java technology by integrating the
multi-layering concept and emerging GIS-like facilities. In the last section, different
mobile solutions are listed as mobile services.
Globa and Kurdecha, authors of the first chapter on mobile network technologies,
offer a new concept for developing a multi-standard mobile network. Chapter
includes the architecture of the base station construction with the requirements for
its functional units and the method of reconfiguration of the radio access network.
Also, authors describe the way to support many radio standards based on one
universal platform of the base station with flexible antenna systems, using SDR
technology.
In the second chapter, Poulakis et al. offer survey methods for the preservation of
limited resource - energy. They present a brief description of a simple energy
consumption model for wireless communications. Afterwards, two advanced energy
efficient communication techniques: the opportunistic scheduling and the
collaborative beam forming, are introduced.
Gupta, Liu, and Koneru (Chapter 3) have presented a non-blocking synchronous check
pointing approach to determine globally consistent checkpoints. Only those processes
that have sent some message(s) after their last checkpoints, take checkpoints during
check pointing; thereby reducing the number of checkpoints to be taken. Authors’
approach offers advantage particularly in the case of mobile computing systems where
both non-block check pointing and reduction in the number of checkpoints help in the
efficient use of the limited resources of mobile computing environment.
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The Mobile Software Life Cycle section of the book starts with Chapter 4. Kirisci et al.
provide an overview of existing inclusive design approaches suitable for the
conceptual design stages: sketch, design (CAD), and evaluation. This chapter is
particularly focused on the sketch and CAD phases, a tool-based design support is
proposed which is based upon the implementation of a context model,
comprehensively describing and interlinking the aspects of potential situations (user,
environment, tasks).
In Chapter 5, Cao, Yang, and Zhou declare mobile phone testing as an example to
introduce the implementation process of embedded software testing and analyze the
methods after presenting testing techniques and tools, attempting to form a kind of
engineered solution for testing.
In Chapter 6, Dbouk, Mcheick, and Sbeity, propose the approach which consists of an
Online-Repository, intended to stimulate and emerge OLTP and OLAP roles; it
incorporates business analysis, exploration, entity states management and pattern-
based conduction. Authors proceed with experiments to build a suitable business
intelligence-like prototype using the Java technology. They demonstrate at the end,
during the validation process, that the approach could be extended by integrating the
multi-layering concept and emerging GIS-like facilities.
The Mobile Applications as Service part begins with Chapter 7. Leite et al. present new
hospital automation technologies, especially, mobile techniques and a survey of a
number of state of the art studies. Additionally, authors present an example of
architecture for processing, monitoring patient's vital signs using artificial intelligent
technique as fuzzy logic.
In Chapter 8, Serigioli, Rodriguez, and Muñoz discuss the development of an
electronic system for acquiring biomedical signals. Markedly, arterial pressure and
oximetry signals are acquired and processed with this system and sent to a cell
phone at a remote location. Data is sent as an SMS message. The main objective is to
assist professional health workers with the patients’ information in such a way that
they can analyze the data collected remotely and return instructions to the patient
and also to help the local health worker make the proper decisions in regards to the
patients care.
In Chapter 9, Alabbadi proposes user-centric high-level system architecture of mLaaS
(mLearning as a service). This architecture has the major features: transparency;
collaboration, extended into intra-organizational sharing of educational and learning
resources; personalized learning; and users' motivational effects. The author suggests
that mLearning solutions have to provide different flexibilities. To provide this facility
mLearning has to be presented by service level, which is the main concern of the
chapter.