Browsing Working Papers by Author "Ranganathan, Kavitha"
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Enabling a mobile cloud service: Data-sharing in ad-hoc device-to-device mobile networks
Ranganathan, Kavitha (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-03-21)The objective of this work is to build a data-sharing application for an ad-hoc network of mobile devices, where users can exchange data/files among themselves without relying on traditional communication channels like ... -
Encouraging Cooperation in Ad-hoc Mobile Phone Mesh Networks for Rural Connectivity
Ranganathan, Kavitha; Shekhar, Vikramaditya (2011-05-26)This paper proposes a rating based scheme for encouraging user participation in ad-hoc mobile phone mesh networks. These networks are particularly attractive for remote/rural areas in developing countries as they do not ... -
A framework for socially meaningful evaluations of technology based social innovations
Ranganathan, Kavitha; Sarin, Ankur (IIM Ahmedabad, 2013-11-07)The social innovation space that tries to marry the pursuit of profits and social impact is at interesting cross-roads in developing countries like India. Among other things, the euphoria and subsequent deflation around ... -
Friw: Free radicle inspired walk capturing social bonds for a realistic human mobility model
Ranganathan, Kavitha (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03-09)Studies on mobile applications for ad-hoc networks predominantly rely on simulations to evaluate various distributed algorithms. This has given rise to the need for realistic mobility models that incorporate social ... -
A game theoretic approach to community based data sharing in mobile ad hoc networks
Premm, Raj H; Ranganathan, Kavitha (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03-04)Government interventions on usage of free speech for communication has been rising of late. The government of Iraq’s ban on the Internet, ban of mobile communications in Hong Kong student protests highlight the same. ... -
A Memory-Aided Broadcast Mechanism for Enabling a Rural Community Radio on an Ad-Hoc Peer-To-Peer Mobile Network
Ranganathan, Kavitha; Arora, Sonia (2013-11-25)This paper investigates deploying a village level community-radio application on top of a MANET comprising completely of basic mobile phones. We envision a system, where any user in the network is equally empowered to ... -
What makes a data-story work? a framework for effective visual data narratives
Kapoor, Amit; Ranganathan, Kavitha (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)Stories have been recognized for their power of communication & persuasion for centuries and we need to operate at that intersection of data, visual and stories to fully harness the power of data. Online journalism has ...