4 papers
TikTok's recommendations skewed towards Republican content during the 2024 U.S. presidential race
Hazem Ibrahim, HyunSeok Daniel Jang, Nouar Aldahoul +3
TikTok is a major force among social media platforms with over a billion monthly active users worldwide and 170 million in the United States. The platform's status as a key news so…
A Tale of Three Location Trackers: AirTag, SmartTag, and Tile
HyunSeok Daniel Jang, Hazem Ibrahim, Rohail Asim +2
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) location trackers, or "tags", are popular consumer devices for monitoring personal items. These tags rely on their respective network of companion device…
Challenges and Opportunities for Global Cellular Connectivity
Viktoria Vomhoff, Hyunseok Daniel Jang, Matteo Varvello +4
Traditional cellular service was designed for global connectivity, but business and logistical constraints led to its fragmentation, with deployments limited to individual countrie…
Unraveling the Airalo Ecosystem
Hyunseok Daniel Jang, Matteo Varvello, Andra Lutu +1
In recent years, we have witnessed myriad flavours of Mobile Network Aggregators (MNAs) which exploit the coverage footprint of a handful of base operators to provide global mobile…