Development of application system for mobile location-based services based on TDOA technology

Location-based service (LBS) is a kind of mobile valueadded services in mobile communication systems. The development of mobile positioning techniques promotes application of LBS. This paper presents a type of architecture of LBS. In this architecture, TDOA positioning modules are appended into the mobile basestations in order to implement LBS. LBS gateway and application platform are two vital parts in this architecture. LBS gateway modules are added into MSC of the mobile communication networks. LBS application platform is similar to a mobile location server. TDOA positioning modules deal with rough location testing and simple data computing. LBS gateway is a comprehensive management device which processes location information related to the mobile users. LBS application platform incepts location information processed in LBS gateway, cooperates with the mobile terminal and sends location information to the mobile users by proper data format. LBS application platform is developed based on ArcIMS map server which provides a lot of APIs. The application programming flowchart for LBS is implemented in detail in this paper. The real testing in the mobile communication systems shows that the proposed LBS can provide exact location services for mobile users.