TY - GEN

T1 - An open architecture for developing mobile location-based applications over the Internet

AU - Jose, R

AU - Moreira, A

AU - Meneses, F

AU - Coulson, G

PY - 2001

Y1 - 2001

N2 - The mobile Internet is enabling a broad range of new applications that dynamically obtain information that is relevant to their current location. This type of application would greatly benefit from generic mechanisms for supporting the association between network resources and physical space, but existing systems are typically, based on vertical approaches valid only for narrow application scenarios. This paper argues that a comprehensive solution to this issue should address the important challenges of heterogeneity and openness, and proposes an approach based on the concept of location-based service, i.e. a service whose usage is associated with physical space, as a generic abstraction to support the development of location-dependent systems. The paper describes a model for associating location scopes with services, an architecture to support the discovery of location-based services on the Internet, and a prototype infrastructure in which several services and applications have been developed for validating the architecture.

AB - The mobile Internet is enabling a broad range of new applications that dynamically obtain information that is relevant to their current location. This type of application would greatly benefit from generic mechanisms for supporting the association between network resources and physical space, but existing systems are typically, based on vertical approaches valid only for narrow application scenarios. This paper argues that a comprehensive solution to this issue should address the important challenges of heterogeneity and openness, and proposes an approach based on the concept of location-based service, i.e. a service whose usage is associated with physical space, as a generic abstraction to support the development of location-dependent systems. The paper describes a model for associating location scopes with services, an architecture to support the discovery of location-based services on the Internet, and a prototype infrastructure in which several services and applications have been developed for validating the architecture.

U2 - 10.1109/ISCC.2001.935421

DO - 10.1109/ISCC.2001.935421

M3 - Conference contribution/Paper

SN - 0-7695-1178-3

SP - 500

EP - 505

BT - Proceedings of the 6th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications

PB - IEEE Publishing

CY - Los Alamitos

T2 - 6th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications

Y2 - 3 July 2001 through 5 July 2001

ER -