Deployment Experiences of a Geographic Messaging Service in a Campus WLAN

Author

González, Francisco A. ; Pérez, Jesus A. ; Zárate, Victor H.

Author_Institution

Inst. Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Morelos

Volume

1

fYear

2005

fDate

21-24 Nov. 2005

Firstpage

660

Lastpage

663

Abstract

Geographic messaging is the sending of a message to only those nodes located in a specific geographic area. It also can be used to locate a particular service in a particular area. In this paper, we present the development and deployment experiences of a geographic messaging service intended to provide route guidance and dynamic announcements to campus visitors. An implementation prototype runs over the 802.11b infrastructure of our campus wireless LAN. The application was designed for using handheld computers as client mobile devices

Keywords

electronic messaging; wireless LAN; 802.11b infrastructure; campus visitor service; dynamic announcements; geographic messaging service; geomessaging; handheld computers; location-aware services; mobile devices; route guidance; wireless LAN; Application software; Communication system security; Handheld computers; IEEE news; Message service; Mobile computing; Personal digital assistants; Prototypes; Wireless LAN; Wireless networks; Geomessaging; location-aware services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer as a Tool, 2005. EUROCON 2005.The International Conference on

Conference_Location

Belgrade

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0049-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EURCON.2005.1630016

Filename

1630016