ACUTA Journal of Telecommunications in Higher Education

In This Issue Strategic Planning in the College and University Ecosystem Outlook 2012: Chickens or Eggs? lT Trends on Campus: 2012 Best Practices in Deploying a Successful University SAN Beyond Convergence: How Advanced Networking Will Erase Campus Boundaries Distributed Computing: The Path to the Power? Cell Phones on the University Campus: Adversary or Ally? lnstitutional Excellence Award Honorable Mention: Wake Forest University Interview President\u27s Message From the Executive Director Here\u27s My Advic

The broadcast marketplace : Designing a more efficient local marketplace for goods and services

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2012.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-74).Today's online marketplaces for goods and services are imperfect. Participants make an initial post expressing their intention to buy or sell an object, but all offers on this post are private. These offers can be seen as expressions of other participants' intentions to buy or sell the same item. What if these offers were as public as the initial post? Would this decrease market friction and enable participants to close transactions more efficiently? What if every post and offer were tagged with a location enabling a real-time proximal picture of supply and demand? In this thesis, we explore a different kind of marketplace, a broadcast marketplace, where a combination of public post, proximal awareness and mobility decrease the friction of information flow and facilitate efficiency. This thesis explores the design, implementation and deployment of a system which enables users to efficiently view, understand and act upon this proximal picture of supply and demand. To test the viability of the broadcast marketplace we deployed Peddl, an implementation of the idea, in the MIT and Cambridge, MA community. Over the course of the trial we collected data on 5,839 unique visitors and 805 registered users, who made 726 posts totaling $234,913 in value. From this data we show that the additional transparency of supply and demand afforded by our design results in increased marketplace activity.Matthew Blackshaw.S.M

The Future of the Internet III

Presents survey results on technology experts' predictions on the Internet's social, political, and economic impact as of 2020, including its effects on integrity and tolerance, intellectual property law, and the division between personal and work lives

Multimedia delivery in the future internet

The term “Networked Media” implies that all kinds of media including text, image, 3D graphics, audio and video are produced, distributed, shared, managed and consumed on-line through various networks, like the Internet, Fiber, WiFi, WiMAX, GPRS, 3G and so on, in a convergent manner [1]. This white paper is the contribution of the Media Delivery Platform (MDP) cluster and aims to cover the Networked challenges of the Networked Media in the transition to the Future of the Internet. Internet has evolved and changed the way we work and live. End users of the Internet have been confronted with a bewildering range of media, services and applications and of technological innovations concerning media formats, wireless networks, terminal types and capabilities. And there is little evidence that the pace of this innovation is slowing. Today, over one billion of users access the Internet on regular basis, more than 100 million users have downloaded at least one (multi)media file and over 47 millions of them do so regularly, searching in more than 160 Exabytes1 of content. In the near future these numbers are expected to exponentially rise. It is expected that the Internet content will be increased by at least a factor of 6, rising to more than 990 Exabytes before 2012, fuelled mainly by the users themselves. Moreover, it is envisaged that in a near- to mid-term future, the Internet will provide the means to share and distribute (new) multimedia content and services with superior quality and striking flexibility, in a trusted and personalized way, improving citizens’ quality of life, working conditions, edutainment and safety. In this evolving environment, new transport protocols, new multimedia encoding schemes, cross-layer inthe network adaptation, machine-to-machine communication (including RFIDs), rich 3D content as well as community networks and the use of peer-to-peer (P2P) overlays are expected to generate new models of interaction and cooperation, and be able to support enhanced perceived quality-of-experience (PQoE) and innovative applications “on the move”, like virtual collaboration environments, personalised services/ media, virtual sport groups, on-line gaming, edutainment. In this context, the interaction with content combined with interactive/multimedia search capabilities across distributed repositories, opportunistic P2P networks and the dynamic adaptation to the characteristics of diverse mobile terminals are expected to contribute towards such a vision. Based on work that has taken place in a number of EC co-funded projects, in Framework Program 6 (FP6) and Framework Program 7 (FP7), a group of experts and technology visionaries have voluntarily contributed in this white paper aiming to describe the status, the state-of-the art, the challenges and the way ahead in the area of Content Aware media delivery platforms

ACUTA Journal of Telecommunications in Higher Education

In This Issue The Future of the University Telephone System Two Approaches to Communications in the Desert Dual-Mode Smartphones Are Shaping the Future for VolP ADVERTORIAL: The Future of the Managed Emergency Communications System Penn State\u27s Voice Services: Roadmap to the Clouds Where Are We Now...Where Are We Going? Preparing for the Future as an ICT Professional Videoconferencing Goes Mobile President\u27s Message From the Executive Director Q&A with the CI

Emergency Button Application - Android Systems

The investigation of emergency situations is a complex field of study which involves different perspectives. Individual‘s and public‘s safety is a very important issue, the established emergency response system is the main core of resolving these emergency situations, we are already familiar with the normal emergency reporting system like calling 911 or using emergency phones, But this project aims to create an application that can assist users in emergency situations and provide users with instant details of their location to send to family, friends, or authorities in panic & emergency situations, another option other than public emergency phone systems and other forms of reporting in emergency situations for an easier and friendlier approach, thus improving public safety. The methodology used to complete this application is agile software development methodology which is based on iterative & incremental development that is rapid & flexible. The tools for this project include Eclipse Indigo which is a popular platform to develop Android Applications with the aid of a variety of software tools in design and user friendly software development such as Android ADT tools. In conclusion, the application‘s is successfully developed and met its main objective which is to help users broadcast their message in an emergency situation whenever they need help and can‘t easily get it or find it but with today‘s world mobile software development, public safety shall be more personalized

ACUTA Journal of Telecommunications in Higher Education

In This Issue Thanks You for Serving on an ACUTA Committee The Future of Fixed Mobile Convergence Technology Forecast for Ohio: Cloudy with Lingering Savings From Macrocells to Femtocells: Cellular Coverage and Capacity Enhancement Demystified Distributed Antenna Systems-Sometimes You Just Have to Do Things Yourself! Navigating Today\u27s Complex Voice Roadmap lf You Build lt, Will They Come? Maximizing the lT Budget for Success: The Sage Colleges\u27Journey of Efficiency and Creativity 2009 ACUTA Ruth A. Michalecki Leadership Award 2009 Bill D. Morris Award Interview President\u27s Message From the Executive Director Q&A from the CI

ACUTA Journal of Telecommunications in Higher Education

In This Issue Technology Advances: The View from 10,000 Feet WAP: Are You Ready for a Wireless World? Virtual Private Networks: How They Can Work for Colleges and Universities Network Security: How\u27s Your Posture? Software for Rent: Contact ASP Voicing My IPinion Institutional Excellence Award: Colorado Christian University Columns Interview Book Revie

Wireless Location Based Services (Wi-LBS)

The needs and demands on location information have arisen rapidly. With the advancement of mobile computing technologies, many researches and studies have been conducted in providing reliable location information solution. Location based information has become an important resource for mobile users especially in giving direction or locating places. Wireless Location Based Services (Wi-LBS) highlight this scenario by explaining the application and usage of the LBS in wireless environment. Wi-LBS is introduced with respect to providing wireless method in locating places within UTP campus instead of referring to static map. The objective of this research is to integrate GIS with MMS technology as a system called Wireless Location Based Services. It is mainly focused on applying GIS elements in providing location information by utilizing the advancement of today's wireless handheld devices. Users will request for location by sending short messages using their mobile phones to the WiLBS system and the system will reply back sending the location information containing pictures and direction. Rapid Application Development (RAD) is used as the methodology in designing the system of Wi-LBS. This research also details the study on Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) that covers the sending of picture messages from Wi-LBS to mobile phones and system's function in responding to the users' requests. Various references and studies have been done regarding the successful LBS applications implemented in foreign country that leads to the interest of doing the research on LBS implementation in this country. The result from the research will be the proposed framework for Wi-LBS, the discussion on the GIS and MMS as well as the system of Wi-LBS. This study proved that Wireless Location Based Services has great potential to be commercially implemented with the growth of wireless application nowadays as today's community is eager of getting more services from wireless system

CHORUS Deliverable 2.2: Second report - identification of multi-disciplinary key issues for gap analysis toward EU multimedia search engines roadmap

After addressing the state-of-the-art during the first year of Chorus and establishing the existing landscape in multimedia search engines, we have identified and analyzed gaps within European research effort during our second year. In this period we focused on three directions, notably technological issues, user-centred issues and use-cases and socio- economic and legal aspects. These were assessed by two central studies: firstly, a concerted vision of functional breakdown of generic multimedia search engine, and secondly, a representative use-cases descriptions with the related discussion on requirement for technological challenges. Both studies have been carried out in cooperation and consultation with the community at large through EC concertation meetings (multimedia search engines cluster), several meetings with our Think-Tank, presentations in international conferences, and surveys addressed to EU projects coordinators as well as National initiatives coordinators. Based on the obtained feedback we identified two types of gaps, namely core technological gaps that involve research challenges, and “enablers”, which are not necessarily technical research challenges, but have impact on innovation progress. New socio-economic trends are presented as well as emerging legal challenges