Location-Aware Web Service Architecture Using WLAN Positioning

  • Ulf Rerrer
Conference paper
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 3762)

Abstract

The steady rise of mobile computing devices and wireless local-area networks (WLAN) has fostered a growing interest in location-aware systems and services (LBS). Context-awareness in mobile systems give users more convenience with services specific to their preferences, behaviour and physical position. This paper presents an architecture for LBSs in WLANs describing the essential location determination component. An example service using Web Service techniques is described to illustrate efficient service invocation and interaction.

Keywords

Global Position System Access Point Receive Signal Strength Service Invocation Receive Signal Strength Measurement 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Ulf Rerrer
    • 1
  1. 1.Department of Computer SciencePaderborn UniversityPaderbornGermany

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