Location awareness in ad hoc wireless mobile networks

Author

Tseng, Yu-Chee ; Wu, Shih-Lin ; Liao, Wen-Hwa ; Chao, Chih-Min

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Nat. Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan

Volume

34

Issue

6

fYear

2001

fDate

6/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

46

Lastpage

52

Abstract

Networks composed of dynamically repositioning mobile hosts require location awareness to provide new geographic services and to maximize routing efficiency and quality of service. Because wireless networks can operate in a 3D physical environment, exploiting mobile hosts´ location information is both natural and inevitable. Emerging geographic services based on mobile ad-hoc networks (manets) must confront several challenges, including how to increase positioning accuracy and how to establish a connection from location information to the vast body of Web data, as in a tour-guide system for example

Keywords

land mobile radio; quality of service; radio networks; telecommunication network routing; 3D physical environment; World Wide Web data; ad-hoc wireless mobile networks; connection establishment; dynamically repositioning mobile hosts; geographic services; location awareness; manets; mobile ad-hoc networks; positioning accuracy; routing efficiency; service quality; tour-guide system; Base stations; Computer networks; Global Positioning System; Intelligent networks; Mobile computing; Mobile radio mobility management; Multicast protocols; Portable computers; Quality of service; Routing protocols;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9162

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/2.928621

Filename

928621