ACCESSING LOCATION AND PROXIMITY INFORMATION IN A DECENTRALIZED ENVIRONMENT - Location Resolution Operations

Thomas Hadig, Jörg Roth

2004

Abstract

Location-aware applications take into account a mobile user's current location and provide location-dependent output. Often, such applications still have to deal with raw location data and specific positioning systems such as GPS, which lead to inflexible designs. To support developers of location-aware applications, we designed the Nimbus framework, which hides specific details of positioning systems and provides uniform output containing physical as well as semantic information. In this paper, we focus on two important operations provided by the framework, described by two questions "Where am I?" and "What is in my proximity?" Our solution takes into account the requirements of clients in mobile environments. Our algorithms are based on a decentralized and self-organizing runtime infrastructure and are, thus, highly scalable and accessible for mobile users. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach by a number of simulations.

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Hadig T. and Roth J. (2004). ACCESSING LOCATION AND PROXIMITY INFORMATION IN A DECENTRALIZED ENVIRONMENT - Location Resolution Operations . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 1: ICETE, ISBN 972-8865-15-5, pages 88-95. DOI: 10.5220/0001382000880095


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@conference{icete04,
author={Thomas Hadig and Jörg Roth},
title={ACCESSING LOCATION AND PROXIMITY INFORMATION IN A DECENTRALIZED ENVIRONMENT - Location Resolution Operations},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 1: ICETE,},
year={2004},
pages={88-95},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001382000880095},
isbn={972-8865-15-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 1: ICETE,
TI - ACCESSING LOCATION AND PROXIMITY INFORMATION IN A DECENTRALIZED ENVIRONMENT - Location Resolution Operations
SN - 972-8865-15-5
AU - Hadig T.
AU - Roth J.
PY - 2004
SP - 88
EP - 95
DO - 10.5220/0001382000880095