Broadband is widely recognized as a key platform for enabling and supporting job creation, economic development, and innovation in both the short- and long-terms. Many recent policy debates have focused on spurring the deployment of wired broadband networks to unserved parts of the country....

Energy efficient protocol design is the aim of current researches in the area of sensor networks where limited power resources impose energy conservation considerations. In this paper we concern for Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols the recent technology that is used in the Wireless sensor...

Compared to wireless access technologies, wireline access technologies give better performance in terms of bandwidth as well as quality of service but they lack ubiquity and affordability. Wireless networks can be deployed much faster with less initial investment and costs of service...

Wireless body area networks are a key component to the healthcare applications. The real time patient’s medical data can be collected by using simple wearable sensors on the human body. The body sensors on patients gather all critical health information and report it to remote healthcare...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration now regulates "mobile medical apps" on smartphones. As a result, new legal and compliance considerations arise from the FDA guidance for mobile app manufacturers whose malfunctioning medical apps may cause unexpected health problems. However, the benefits of...

The increasing prevalence of unsecure Wireless Internet connections presents unique legal challenges for criminal and civil defendants and government prosecutors alike. The vast majority of home and corporate wireless networks are used without security measures. As a result, anyone with a laptop...

This paper presents an analysis of competition in wireless telecommunications that models the interdependence between spectrum availability, network infrastructure deployment, the generation of transmission technology, average traffic levels and service quality. We show that the constraints on...

Wired and wireless access networks continue to evolve toward higher-capacity, multi-service systems. Recent wireless broadband networks such as 3G LTE and WiMax provide a general-purpose IP platform with over-the-top services at the application layer, which is similar to the design of wired IP...

We study the market for apps on Facebook, the dominant social networking platform, and make use of a rule change by Facebook by which highly engaging apps were rewarded with further opportunities to engage users. The rule change led to new applications with significantly higher user ratings...

The growth of mobile applications on smartphones and tablets ("apps") ranks as one of the most astonishing technological developments of the recent past. The marketplaces for these mobile apps (i.e., the Apple iOS App Store and Google Play) are a significant disruptive change in the way content...