Mobile Systems
What We Do
Mobile devices are the prevalent computing device in many parts of the world, and over the next few years it is expected that mobile Internet usage will outpace desktop usage worldwide. Google is committed to realizing the potential of the mobile web to transform how people interact with computing technology. Google engineers and researchers work on a wide range of problems in mobile computing and networking, including new operating systems and programming platforms (such as Android and ChromeOS); new interaction paradigms between people and devices; advanced wireless communications; and optimizing the web for mobile settings. In addition, many of Google’s core product teams, such as Search, Gmail, and Maps, have groups focused on optimizing the mobile experience, making it faster and more seamless. We take a cross-layer approach to research in mobile systems and networking, cutting across applications, networks, operating systems, and hardware. The tremendous scale of Google’s products and the Android and Chrome platforms make this a very exciting place to work on these problems.
Some representative projects include mobile web performance optimization, new features in Android to greatly reduce network data usage and energy consumption; new platforms for developing high performance web applications on mobile devices; wireless communication protocols that will yield vastly greater performance over today’s standards; and multi-device interaction based on Android, which is now available on a wide variety of consumer electronics.
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26 Publications
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Swipe vs. scroll: web page switching on mobile browsers
Andrew Warr, Ed H. Chi
In Proc. of CHI2013, ACM, pp. 2171-2174
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ADEL: An automatic detector of energy leaks for smartphone applications
Lide Zhang, M. S. Gordon, Robert P. Dick, Z. Morley Mao, Peter Dinda, Lei Yang
Proceeding of International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis, (2012) (to appear)
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Bridging communications and the physical world
Omer Boyaci, Victoria Beltran Martinez, Henning Schulzrinne
IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 16 (2012), pp. 35-43
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DIPLOMA: Consistent and Coherent Shared Memory over Mobile Phones
30th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (2012)
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Gesture-based interaction: a new dimension for mobile user interfaces
Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, ACM, New York, NY, USA (2012), pp. 6-6
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Google's C/C++ toolchain for smart handheld devices
Doug Kwan, Jing Yu, Bhaskar Janakiraman
VLSI Design, Automation, and Test (VLSI-DAT), 2012 International Symposium on, IEEE
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Inter-contact Routing for Energy-constrained Disaster Response Networks
Md Yusuf S Uddin, Hossein Ahmadi, Tarek Abdelzaher, Robin Kravets
IEEE Transaction on Mobile Computing (2012) (to appear)
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Interactive Digital Signage
Roy Want, Bill Schilit
Computer, vol. 45(5) (2012), pp. 21-24
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MOIST: A Scalable and Parallel Moving Object Indexer with School Tracking
Junchen Jiang, Hongji Bao, Edward Y. Chang, Yuqian Li
Proceedings of VLDB 2012, 38th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, pp. 1838-1849
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Tap, swipe, or move: attentional demands for distracted smartphone input
Matei Negulescu, Jaime Ruiz, Yang Li, Edward Lank
Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, ACM, New York, NY, USA (2012), pp. 173-180
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Mobile Computing: Looking to the Future
IEEE Computer, vol. 44 (2011), pp. 28-29
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Programming Micro-Aerial Vehicle Swarms With Karma
Karthik Dantu, Bryan Kate, Jason Waterman, Peter Bailis, Matt Welsh
Proceedings of ACM SenSys 2011
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Accurate Online Power Estimation and Automatic Battery Behavior Based Power Model Generation for Smartphones
Lide Zhang, Birjodh Tiwana, Zhiyun Qian, Zhaoguang Wang, Robert P. Dick, Z. Morley Mao, Lei Yang
Proceeding of Internation Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (2010), pp. 105-114
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Juggler: Virtual Networks for Fun and Profit
Anthony J. Nicholson, Scott Wolchok, Brian D. Noble
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 9 (2010), pp. 31-43
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Usage Patterns in an Urban WiFi Network
Mikhail Afanasyev, Tsuwei Chen
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 18 , Issue: 5 (2010), 1359 - 1372
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CENTAUR: realizing the full potential of centralized wlans through a hybrid data path
Vivek Shrivastava, Nabeel Ahmed, Shravan Rayanchu, Suman Banerjee, Srinivasan Keshav, Konstantina Papagiannaki, Arunesh Mishra
MobiCom '09: Proceedings of the 15th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking, ACM, New York (2009), pp. 297-308
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Activity Recognition for the Digital Home
Jeonghwa Yang, Bill N. Schilit, David W. McDonald
IEEE Computer, vol. 41 (2008), pp. 102-104
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Analysis of a Mixed-Use Urban WiFi Network: When Metropolitan becomes Neapolitan
Mikhail Afanasyev, Tsuwei Chen, Geoffrey M. Voelker, Alex C. Snoeren
IMC '08 Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement, ACM, New York, NY, USA (2008), pp. 85-98
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Architecture-Driven Software Mobility in Support of QoS Requirements
Marija Mikic-Rakic, Sam Malek, Nenad Medvidovic
Proc. 1st International Workshop on Software Architectures and Mobility, ACM, Leipzig (2008), pp. 3-8
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RFID (Radio Frequency Identification)
Stephen A. Weis
Wiley Publishing (2008)
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Deciphering Trends in Mobile Search
IEEE Computer, vol. 40, no. 8 (2007), pp. 58-62
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TOLB: A Traffic-Oblivious Load-Balancing Protocol for Next-Generation Sensornets
Mohamed Aly, Anandha Gopalan
Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Networks (DCOSS) (2007)
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The Role of Context in Query Input: Using contexual signals to complete queries on mobile devices
Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (Mobile HCI) (2007)
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A Large Scale Study of Wireless Search Behavior: Google Mobile Search
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems (CHI) (2006)
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Pervasive Computing in the Home and Community
Don Patterson, Lin Liao, Henry Kautz, Dieter Fox
Pervasive Computing in Healthcare (2006), pp. 79-103
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Report on the Mobile Search Workshop at WWW 2002
Aya Soffer, Yoelle S. Maarek, Bay-Wei Chang
SIGMOD Record, vol. 31 (2002), pp. 68-71