Publications

• Context-Aware Fault Tolerance in Migratory Services
  Oriana Riva, Josiane Nzouonta, and Cristian Borcea
  To Appear in Proceedings of the 5th Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2008), July 2008.


• The MobiSoC Middleware for Mobile Social Computing: Challenges, Design, and Early Experiences
  Cristian Borcea, Ankur Gupta, Achir Kalra, Quentin Jones, and Liviu Iftode
  Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Mobile Wireless Middleware, Operating Systems, and Applications (Mobilware 2008) , February 2008.


• Automatic Identification of Informal Social Groups and Places for Geo-Social Recommendations
  Ankur Gupta, Sanil Paul, Quentin Jones, and Cristian Borcea
  International Journal of Mobile Network Design and Innovation. Vol 2, No. 3/4, 2007.


• Context-aware Migratory Services in Ad Hoc Networks
  Oriana Riva, Tamer Nadeem, Cristian Borcea, and Liviu Iftode
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. Vol. 6, No. 12, December, 2007.


• Trusted Application-Centric Ad Hoc Networks
  Gang Xu, Cristian Borcea, and Liviu Iftode
  Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS 2007), October 2007.


• The Urbanet Revolution: Sensor Power to the People!
  Oriana Riva and Cristian Borcea
  IEEE Pervasive Computing, Special Issue on Building a Sensor-Rich World. Vol. 6, No. 2, Apr-Jun 2007.


• A Quantitative Analysis of Power Consumption for Location-Aware Applications on Smart Phones
  Arjun Anand, Constantine Manikopoulos, Quentin Jones, and Cristian Borcea
  Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE 2007), June 2007.


• Satem: Trusted Service Code Execution across Transactions
  Gang Xu, Cristian Borcea, Liviu Iftode
  Proceedings of the 25th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2006), October 2006.


• EZCab: A Cab Booking Application using Short-range Wireless Communication
  Peng Zhou, Tamer Nadeem, Porlin Kang, Cristian Borcea, and Liviu Iftode
  Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2005), March 2005.



• Portable Smart Messages for Ubiquitous Java-Enabled Devices
  Nishkam Ravi, Cristian Borcea, Porlin Kang, and Liviu Iftode
  Proceedings of The 1st Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2004), August 2004.



• Cooperative Computing in Sensor Networks
  Liviu Iftode, Cristian Borcea, and Porlin Kang
  Chapter in the Handbook of Sensor Networks: Compact Wireless and Wired Sensing Systems, Mohammad Ilyas (ed.), CRC Press, July 2004.



• Smart Messages: A Distributed Computing Platform for Networks of Embedded Systems
  Porlin Kang, Cristian Borcea, Gang Xu, Akhilesh Saxena, Ulrich Kremer, and Liviu Iftode
  The Computer Journal, Special Focus on Mobile and Pervasive Computing, Volume 47, British Computer Society, Oxford University Press, July 2004.



• TrafficView: A Driver Assistant Device for Traffic Monitoring based on Car-to-Car Communication
  Sasan Dashtinezhad, Tamer Nadeem, Bogdan Dorohonceanu, Cristian Borcea, Porlin Kang, Liviu Iftode
  Proceedings of the 59th IEEE Semiannual Vehicular Technology Conference, May 2004.



• Smart Phone: An Embedded System for Universal Interactions
  Liviu Iftode, Cristian Borcea, Nishkam Ravi, Porlin Kang, and Peng Zhou
  Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems (FTDCS 2004), May 2004.



• Spatial Programming using Smart Messages: Design and Implementation
  Cristian Borcea, Chalermek Intanagonwiwat, Porlin Kang, Ulrich Kremer, and Liviu Iftode
  Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2004), March 2004.



• Programming Computers Embedded in the Physical World
  Liviu Iftode, Cristian Borcea, Andrzej Kochut, Chalermek Intanagonwiwat, and Ulrich Kremer
  Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems (FTDCS 2003), May 2003.



• Toward a Security Architecture for Smart Messages: Challenges, Solutions, and Open Issues
  Gang Xu, Cristian Borcea, and Liviu Iftode.
  Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Mobile Distributed Computing (MDC '03), May 2003.



• Self-Routing in Pervasive Computing Environments using Smart Messages
  Cristian Borcea, Chalermek Intanagonwiwat, Akhilesh Saxena, and Liviu Iftode
  Proceedings of the 1st IEEE Annual Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2003), March 2003.



• Cooperative Computing for Distributed Embedded Systems
  Cristian Borcea, Deepa Iyer, Porlin Kang, Akhilesh Saxena, and Liviu Iftode
  Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2002), July 2002.



• Smart Messages: A System Architecture for Large Networks of Embedded Systems
  Phillip Stanley-Marbell, Cristian Borcea, Kiran Nagaraja, and Liviu Iftode.
  Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS-VIII), Position Summary, May 2001.