Mobile Computing In The Academia
- Universities Research Links - Reproduced courtesy of a University WebSite
(Anonymous acknowledgement by MobileInfo.Com) 

Active Badges - Olivetti

The Active Badge system was designed and developed at Olivetti Research Laboratory, Cambridge, England. The system provides a means of locating individuals within a building by determining the location of their Active Badge.

Bay Area Research Wireless Access Network (BARWAN) - Berkeley

We are developing wireless overlay networking technologies as a collaboration with several wireless wide-area and local-area networking companies in the S. F. Bay Area. The goal is to allow mobile applications to move between in-building and wide-area wireless networks as seamlessly as possible, while adapting to the latency and bandwidth changes inherent in such handoffs between networks.

Bayou - Xerox PARC

Bayou is a replicated, highly available, and weakly consistent storage system designed for collaborative applications that run in a mobile computing environment containing portable machines with intermittent network connectivity. Novel aspects of the Bayou system include support for application-specific detection and resolution of update conflicts, eventual replica convergence through a peer-wise anti-entropy process, and per-client consistency guarantees.

Coda & Odyssey - CMU

The focus of the Coda and Odyssey projects is Mobile Information Access. Our goal is to enable mobile users to conveniently access and update information at any time and from any place.

CReWMaN

The primary purpose of CReWMaN is to conduct high quality research in the general areas of resource management in Mobile Computing, with special emphasis on wireless bandwidth and location management. Quality-of-Service provisioning for the third generation wireless multi-media systems is another active area of research.

From the Large to the Small screen:Web interaction on Handheld Computers

This research focusses on web-based interaction on small screen displays such as handheld computers and palm computers.

Future Computing Environments

This group is developing a culture and infrastructure on campus for the investigation, prototyping, and construction of computing environments now that we believe will be commonplace in 10-15 years.

Harris Networking and Communication Laboratory

Mobile Computing research at the University of Florida.

Infopad - UC Berkeley, EECS

The goal of this research is developing a platform and prototype for providing ubiquitous, wireless access to multimedia data.

InForest

InForest is the prototype of an information system for accessing stock data of an forest land. Its task is to support and organize effectively the activity of a forestry worker. By using handheld-computers and wide area networks, InForest makes the interactive mobile access on a stationary stock data base possible. The user can ask for current or previous stock data or store new data, e.g. about forest development or pollution damages, on-the-spot.

InHouse

InHouse is an experimental mobile building information system. It allows the user to get detailed information on-the-spot about his environment with help of a little portable pen-computer based on building planes as well as stock data of physical and logical objects.

Magic WAND (Wireless ATM Network Demonstrator)

Magic WAND is a joint European project to develop a demonstration of mobile terminals for multimedia information access using a fast and wireless ATM network. Communication between the mobiles based on portable computers and the access points serviced by an ATM switch will take place in the 17 GHz range. User trials in hospitals and office environments will include applications for viewing of X-rays and other medical data, teleconferencing and a 'Guided Tour User Trial'. This project will show the benefits of wireless ATM by providing a location independent terminal with realistic data rates even for demanding real world applications.

MaROS

MaROS is an application development environment which allows dynamic division of responsibilities between an authenticated mobile host, called Mobile Host(MH) and a fixed host called Mobile Host Service Provider(MSP) acting as an extension to the processing environment for the objects created on an MH. MaROS applications are Java codes that are developed by using MaROS API Library.

MIVS - ZGDV, Germany

The department "Mobile Information Visualization" of the Darmstadt Computer Graphics Center (ZGDV) performs research and development in the areas of Mobile Computing and Distributed Multimedia Information Systems.

Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing

TecO's research in the area of mobile computing is not restricted to mobile communication, but also directs towards application support in mobile and ubiquitous computing environments. The research in mobile computing addresses topics like application stability in mobile environments, QoS, bandwidth and cost awareness as long as ad-hoc networks and network coupling (LAN, power networks, infrared). In the area of ubiquitous computing we focus on user interfaces, context awareness and ubiquitous information access.

Mobile Broadband System (MBS)

RACE II Project MBS (R2067). The MBS project addresses the system concepts, techniques, and technology required for the transition to the Mobile Broadband System and the market and economical issues relating to the widespread introduction of the corresponding systems and services. This project will identify the future communication needs for mobile users and their market characterisation and the impact of the expected evolution of technology on the economic feasibility of those services.

Mobile Communications Research Group (dead link)

The Centre for Satellite Engineering (CSER).

Mobile Computing Group at CWC, Singapore (dead link)

The Mobile Computing Group focuses on research in Mobile Middleware, Mobile Agents and Mobile Aware Applications. We are in two European ACTS consortium, OnTheMove which looks at proposing an mobile API and mobile middleware architecture, and Cameleon which looks at how mobile agent technology can be used in a mobile telecommunications infrastructure.

Mobile Computing Lab - Columbia University

Columbia University.

Mobile Computing - Purdue

A list of mobile computing research projects at Purdue University.

Mobile Computing - U of Washington

University of Washington, CS&E.

Mobile Computing and Multimedia Laboratory - U of Maryland

MCML's goal is to look at various research issues in the general areas of Mobile Computing and Multimedia and their integration which poses additional challenges. Amongst others, we are involved in investigating mobility routing protocols, service location protocols, link-layer mechanisms for building better wireless networks, NFS and TCP performance over wireless links and ad-hoc networks.

Mobile Computing and Networking Group - Texas A&M University

Research on mobile ad hoc networking, data dissemination, security and transport protocols for wireless networks.

Mobile Computing in a Fieldwork Environment

The Mobile Computing in a Fieldwork Environment (MCFE) project aims to develop context-aware tools for hand-held computers that support the authoring, presentation and management of field notes. These tools are designed to support student and research fieldwork, initially in archaeology and the environmental sciences. Contextual information about the user's environment, such as location, time, temperature or user identity. his information can be used not only to tag information as it is collected in the field, but also to enable selective responses such as triggering alarms or retrieving information relevant to the task at hand. Because of the importance of location in fieldwork applications, the hand-held computers used in the project are normally connected to a GPS receiver.

Mobile Multimedia Technologies

Solution concepts for building interactive graphics information systems using mobile computing hardware.

Mobile SIG

Cambridge.

Mobisaic - University of Washington, CS&E

Mobisaic is a World Wide Web information system designed to serve users in a mobile wireless computing environment.

MOMID - Efficient Handling of Multimedia Data within a Mobile Environment

The overall goal of the project MOMID is the establishment of concepts for an efficient handling of multimedia data in the area of mobile computing. The developed concepts will be partially implemented as well as validated and demonstrated within selected application scenarios.

Monarch

The Monarch Project at Carnegie Mellon University is developing adaptive networking protocols and protocol interfaces to allow truly seamless wireless and mobile host networking. The scope of this research includes protocol design, implementation, performance evaluation, and usage-based validation, spanning areas ranging roughly from portions of the ISO Data Link layer (layer 2) through the Presentation layer (layer 6). The goal of this work is to enable mobile hosts to communicate with each other and with stationary or wired hosts, transparently making the most efficient use of the best network connectivity available to the mobile host at any time.

Monad

MONAD is a mobile information system supporting the administration of large, distributed network structures in corporate buildings. Using a lightweight, hand-held computer allows network administrators to record changes to the infrastructure on-site in digital form. Also, it simplifies troubleshooting and installation procedures by giving network personnel on-site access to global state- and configuration information.

MONET

High Data Rate MObile interNET (Navy).

MosquitoNet - Stanford University

The MosquitoNet project is working towards providing seemingly continuous network connectivity for mobile computers on the Internet. Our current focus is on 1) seamless switching between different networks as availability changes, and 2) application support for managing the resulting changes in network characteristics.

MoVi

Starting point of the MoVi-research-activities is the concept of the Infoverse, that is a integrated, heterogeneous, global distributed repository of any data and services. The challange is to provide access to this electronical universe for "everybody, at any time and location" with help of mobile computers and wireless communication. So to say MoVi provides mobile windows for the Infoverse.

MoVi - Mobile Visualization

The objective of MoVi is to develop mechanisms for an effective visualization of complex multimedia data on mobile equipment. Problem areas adressed are heterogeneity of display equipment, network transfer rates, and user support. The long-term vision is to create "mobile windows" to a globally distributed information repository.

MOWGLI - University of Helsinki

The goal of the MOWGLI project is to study, design, and test data communication architectures for pan-European GSM-based mobile data services and to develop prototypes based on the architectures. The work in the project will concentrate on the architectural aspects which support the mobility of the client, allow client applications to operate in a disconnected or in a weakly connected mode, and hide the problems of the wireless connection.

MultiPort

Multiport is a European project funded under the ACTS program to develop a nomadic PDA platform. The platform will be used to trial UMTS infrastructure in a helathcare application.

Nomadic Research Labs

Mobile computing vehicles: BEHEMOTH (formerly Winnebiko) and the new Microship.

On The Move

OnTheMove (ACTS) develops a standardised mobile application program interface (Mobile API) to facilitate and promote the development of a wide spectrum of mobile multimedia applications. On The Move will address this objective by developing an architecture, the Mobile Application Support Environment (MASE), to support both "mobile-aware" and legacy (i.e., non-"mobile-aware") applications.

Parallel Simulation of Mobile Telecommunication Networks

The Simulation Laboratory at the Department of Teleinformatics, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, conducts research and education in advanced simulation methodologies, techniques, and tools. We are particularly interested in development of distributed simulation techniques and their applications in analysis and performance evaluation of computer and wireless/mobile telecommunication systems.

PARCTAB - Xerox

The PARCTAB system consists of palm-sized mobile computers that can communicate wirelessly through infrared transceivers to workstation-based applications.

Pathfinder

BBN.

PLANS - Macquarie University (dead link)

The PLANS project invloves the design of a wireless link operating at 60GHz and about 80Mb/s along with appropriate MAC layer and network layer protocols to allow multi-media and mobility. This www page concentrates on mobile-ip aspects of the project.

RDRN (Rapidly Deployable Radio Networks) - University of Kansas

The goal is to create a high-speed ATM-based wireless network architecture that will be adaptive at both the link and network levels to allow for rapid deployment and automatic reconfiguration in a changing environment.

Rover

The MIT LCS PDOS group conducts software research for parallel and distributed operating systems, spanning a wide-range of areas, including mobile computing. Our principle effort in mobile computing is the Rover toolkit which combines relocatable dynamic objects and queued remote procedure calls to provide unique services for "roving" mobile applications. Relocatable dynamic objects can be loaded into a client computer from a server computer (or vice versa) to reduce communication requirements. Queued remote procedure calls permit applications to make non-blocking RPCs even when a host is disconnected; the calls are processed upon network reconnection.

Seanet (dead link)

Objective is extension of internet to sea. We explore the coming commercial communications infrastructure, such as the Big LEOs and Teledesic and attempt to forecast how this will change the military and commercial maritime environments. On the lab side, we explore the inefficiencies of existing protocols in radio-WAN environments and what we should do in the nature of commercializing radio-WAN-friendly next generation mutations of the TCP/IP protocols.

SEER

SEER is a predictive caching system for disconnected operation which will ensure that useful files are still available even when the network is not available to a mobile machine.

Shoshin - Mobile Computing

University of Waterloo.

SimPCS - Feng-Chia University

A handoff simulation and visualization environment for large-scale PCS systems. Sim PCS can be used as a tool for capacity planning and performance modeling or as a c ourseware for the learning of PCS courses.

Smart Antennas in Wireless Communications - Stanford

Smart antenna based system architecture, algorithms for Receiver and Transmitter space-time processing, performance modeling, channel modeling and experimental verification.

SpectrumWare - TNS group, MIT (dead link)

The SpectrumWare project is applying a software oriented approach to wireless communication and distributed signal processing.

The Teleporting System - Olivetti

An alternative approach to mobile computing is one in which application user interfaces, rather than the computer on which the applications run, are able to move. The Teleporting System is a tool for experiencing such `mobile applications'. It operates within the X Window System, and allows users to interact with their existing X applications at any X display. The Teleporting System is freely available to Academic Institutions.

Travler (dead link)

The Travler project is developing system software for mobile computers. We take an integrated approach to this problem, modeling and simulating the mobile environment as well as designing and building software. Some early results from the project are a file replication service for mobile computers, a nomadic router to allow transparent switching of data streams from one device to another, and a simulation of file replication in the mobile environment. We expect to produce more components and improvements to these components in the next few years.

Ubiquitous Computing

Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.

UMASS Wireless LAN Research Group - University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Wireless Local Area Networks.

View Maintenance in Mobile Computing

When consumers access a continuously changing database from a mobile computer, two costs will usually be incurred: access cost and communication cost. In this project we study the relationship between cost models and optimal database retrieval protocols. We are also building a software system called Wireless-View, for selecting the optimal retrieval protocol for a given cost model and access pattern.

A Walk in the Clouds - POLITEHNICA (dead link)

Mobile and Wireless Home Page at POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest, Romania.

http://www.it.kth.se/TSlab/WS/ws.htmlWearable Computers - Carnegie Mellon University, EDRC

The VuMan and Navigator projects.

Wearable Computer Research - University Of Oregon

The University Of Oregon is actively involved in the field of wearable computer research. Our project is being done in conjunction with Carnegie Mellon University who is responsible for the development of the hardware platform. The University of Oregon is responsible for the software development of the wearables. Currently, our goal is to develop a software "backplane" which allows wearable computers to rapidly adapt to different applications.

Wearable Computing - MIT

MIT Media Lab Wearable Computing Project web pages.

WINLAB (Wireless Information Network Laboratory) - Rutgers

WINLAB is a National Science Foundation Industry/University research center dedicated to research, education and technology transfer in support of future wireless communications systems. WINLAB research addresses the technical challenges arising from the radio medium, energy constraints in portable terminals, and the mobility of users. Research projects are clustered in the overlapping areas of Network Architecture, Multiple Access (PRMA, TDMA, CDMA), Radio Resource Management, Mobility Management, Mobile Computing and a Multi-Media Wireless Testbed.

Wireless Andrew - Carnegie Mellon University, INI

The Information Networking Institute at Carnegie Mellon University is pursuing a campus wide wireless network. In addition, we are looking into providing wide area coverage through the use Cellular Digitial Packet Data (CDPD). Solutions which provide ubiquitous roaming between these coverage areas are being explored.

Wireless Media Systems

The wireless media systems project is a new research initiative to develop QOS-aware middleware for mobile multimedia networking called mobiware. The project is part of a broader initiative by members of the COMET Group at the Center for Telecommunications Research, Columbia University to develop open programmable multimedia networks for ATM, Internet and mobile multimedia networks.

Wireless/Mobile Networks

Naval Research Lab.