Empowering Feature Phones to Build Smart Mobile Networked Systems

Kuldeep Yadav, Vinayak S Naik

Abstract


In last two decades, increase in mobile devices coupled with subscriptions have enabled large proliferation of mobile systems and applications. Apart from traditional services such as voice calls, SMSes, today’s mobile phones enable array of other services i.e. location-based services, multimedia, education, citizen information services for the consumers. However, developing mobile system which can work on all the mobile devices is still a challenge to solve due to large heterogeneity among mobile devices and network. Most of mobile systems are built for smartphones, which constitute of only small percentage of all mobile devices, rest of devices are feature phones, which have limited capability in terms of computation or communication.
We need to take special design considerations while building mobile systems for feature phones. In this paper, we present three of such mobile systems, which are carefully designed for mobile phones in resource-constrained environments. First, CBS-based localization provides a positioning method for feature phones, which works without wardriving. Second, a system called Unity that enables collaborative download among co-located mobile users and third, a participatory sensing system Human Sensors, which enables human-in-loop sensing of city problems using a mobile phone.

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mobile computing, wireless networks, localization, sensing, systems

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