Developing location based services in Parlay/OSA

Author

Masenya, L. ; Hanrahan, H. ; Dwolatzky, B. ; Van Olst

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Inf. Eng., Univ. of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Volume

2

fYear

2004

fDate

15-17 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

1193

Abstract

Open standards have the potential to greatly simplify the way a utility´s infrastructure is developed. Moreover the software development process of applications based on that infrastructure is improved. To facilitate the development of location based services (LBS), Parlay/OSA is used as an open standard development platform for such services. It supports application programming interfaces for accessing different network architectures that can be used by LBS services to query for location of a mobile. The Parlay/OSA framework also addresses security concerns. For LBS services to be complete, a geospatial database must be used to provide information based on location. An extension to the Parlay/OSA gateway is thus proposed to encapsulate the necessary APIs for querying geospatial databases.

Keywords

data encapsulation; mobile communication; software engineering; telecommunication security; telecommunication services; visual databases; LBS; OGIS; Parlay/OSA framework; Parlay/OSA gateway; encapsulation; location based services; network architecture accessing; open standard development platform; programming interfaces; querying geospatial databases; security concerns; software development process; utilities infrastructure; Application software; Cost function; Data security; Databases; Hoses; Large Hadron Collider; Software standards; Standards development; Switches; Telecommunication network management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

AFRICON, 2004. 7th AFRICON Conference in Africa

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8605-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AFRICON.2004.1406878

Filename

1406878