Term Project Proposal

Narendiran Visvanathan 
CS898t - Mobile and Wireless Networks (Summer 2005)
Dr.Chin-Chih Chang


Topic :
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A study on Location Aware Computing

Objectives :
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 * What is location aware computing ?
 * How it actually works ?
 * Techniques behind location awareness
 * Architecture
 * Applications
 * Privacy Issues
 * Related Concepts and standards (still in research)
 * Applications for use (or in near future)
 * Future work

Scope :
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Since Internet mobile devices and 3G mobile networks become reality, Location
aware computing is the landscape of tomorrow.

The ability to detect the exact location of the device or may be it's relative 
location, especially a wireless device is called location aware computer 
system. This concept bridge the gap between the user and device.

This paper will explain how it actually works and the what are the techniques
that provides support or making it tomorrow's technology. Then it will tell us 
more about the architecture behind this system and applications. It will
address the privacy issues too since the devices are going to dynamically 
obtain information based on the location. Finally it will discuss some related 
concepts or technologies and real life implementations and concludes with
the future work.

References :
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[1] Sami Levijoki, Privacy vs Location Awareness, Seminar on Network Security,
http://www.tml.hut.fi/Opinnot/Tik-110.501/2000/papers/levijoki.pdf

[2] Chris Schmandt and Natalia Marmasse, User-Centered Location Awareness, 
MIT Media Laboratory, 
http://www.computer.org/computer/homepage/1004/invisible/

[3] Alan Dearle, Graham Kirby, Ron Morrison, Kevin Mullen, Yanyan Yang,
Richard Connor, Paula Welen, Andy Wilson, A Recursive Software 
Architecture for Location-Aware Services, 
http://www.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/research/publications/download/DKM+02.pdf

[4] Waseem Besada, Towards a Single Location-awareness System, 
http://www.isk.kth.se/~waseem/grad-courses/location-awareness.html

[5] James Nord, Kare Synnes, Peter Parnes, An Architecture for Location 
Aware Applications,
http://csdl2.computer.org/comp/proceedings/hicss/2002/1435/09/14350293.pdf

[6] Alexander Leonhardi, Device Location and Location Based Services, 
KuVS Summer School .Mobile Computing., 2002
http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/events/SummerSchool2002/kss-leonhardi.pdf