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The development of wireless communication technologies offers the possibility to provide new services to the users other than the web surfing. Futur3 is a wireless telecommunication company interested in designing, implementing and managing WMANs (Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks ) that has launched a project, called L.U.N.A. (Large Unwired Network Applications), with the objective of covering main locations in the province of Trento (Trentino Alto-Adige, Italy) with a wireless mesh network. The Futur3 business model is based on a very low cost access to the L.U.N.A. network offering users services with tailor made advertising. In this paper we present the L.U.N.A. Ads, a client-side application, able to provide contents together with advertising, considering the usability and accessibility requirements.
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Martellone, A.M., Tacconi, D., Del Fatto, V., Vitiello, G. (2008). L.U.N.A. Ads – Sustaining Wireless Access for Mobile Users. In: Sebillo, M., Vitiello, G., Schaefer, G. (eds) Visual Information Systems. Web-Based Visual Information Search and Management. VISUAL 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5188. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85891-1_19
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