When Location-Based Services Meet Databases

location based services

As Location-Based Services (LBSs) grow to support a larger and larger user community and to provide more and more intelligent services, they must face a few fundamental challenges, including the ability to not only accept coordinates as location data but also manipulate high-level semantics of the physical environment. They must also handle a large amount of location updates and client requests and be able to scale up as their coverage increases. This paper describes some of the research in location modeling and updates and techniques for enhancing system performance by caching and batch processing. Technological advances, especially those in wireless communication and mobile devices, have fueled the proliferation of Location-Based Services (LBS).

Topics: Bandwidth Issues, IM, Mobile - Wireless Communications

Tags: Wi-Fi, database, mobile, mobile device, modeling, wireless, wireless communication

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