Finding a parking spot in a busy indoor parking lot is a daunting task. Retracing a parked vehicle can be equally frustrating. We present BluePark, a collaborative sensing mechanism using smartphone sensors to solve these ...

Voice based telecommunication services are emerging as most appropriate medium for information dissemination in developing regions, as they overcome prevalent low literacy rate and are more reachable than any other ...

Location-aware applications are steadily gaining popularity across the world. However lack of GPS in low-end programmable phones (< $100) and general absence of Wi-Fi infrastructure in developing countries prevents users ...

In developing countries, smartphones and high bandwidth connections are not yet within the reach of majority of the people. To share multimedia content among themselves, people rely on manual local sharing mechanisms i.e. ...

Network censorship and surveillance generally involves ISPs working under the orders of repressive regimes, monitoring (and sometimes filtering) users’ traffic, often using powerful networking devices, e.g. routers ...