Improving Vehicular Mobility in Urban Traffic Using Ubiquitous Computing

Local Optimization Strategies in Urban Vehicular Mobility

The comprehension of vehicular traffic in urban environments is crucial to achieve a good management of the complex processes arising from people collective motion. Even allowing for the great complexity of human beings, human behavior turns out to be subject to strong constraints--physical, environmental, social, economic--that induce the emergence of common patterns. The observation and under...

Modeling Vehicular Traffic and Mobility for Vehicular Wireless Networks

Ad-hoc wireless communication among highly dynamic, mobile nodes in a urban network is a critical capability for a wide range of important applications including automated vehicles, real-time traffic monitoring, and battleground communication. When evaluating application performance through simulation, a realistic mobility model for vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) is critical for accurate re...

Supporting Mobility and Collaboration in Ubiquitous Computing

For unknown reasons, research into ubiquitous computing seems to pay no attention to collaboration among users in such an environment. This paper presents the design philosophy of activity-based computing (abc) and a technical implementation of it in a ubiquitous computing infrastructure, the ABC framework, which takes collaboration in ubiquitous environments as its starting point. The idea of ...

Seamless mobility in ubiquitous computing environments

Physical Mobility and Logical Mobility in Ubiquitous Computing Environments

This paper presents a framework for building context-aware applications in ubiquitous and mobile computing settings. The framework provides people, places, and things with computational functionalities to support and annotate them. It is unique among existing systems because the functionalities are implemented by mobile agents. Using location-tracking systems, this framework can navigate mobile...