Feasibility Study of a Mobile Peer-To-Peer Navigation Application

Contemporary ubiquitous information systems combine efficiently context-aware and peer-to-peer communication concepts. This paper introduces a novel mobile peer-to-peer (P2P) navigation application, NaviP2P. In addition to basic navigation functionalities such as GPS positioning, showing the user location on the map, scrolling and zooming of the map view, the application leverages P2P group communication to portray peer group members´ availability information on the map for starting supported application sessions. In this feasibility study, the current status of the application prototype is presented with a quantitative latency and cost analysis. End-to-end latency budget is outlined and different map storage and distribution solutions are compared to analyse communications and implementation feasibility