A Distributed Community-Based Location Service Architecture
Maximilian Zündt · mediaTUM – the media and publications repository of the Technical University Munich (Technical University Munich) · 2007
In this thesis we present a novel distributed location service architecture which focuses on the collaborative generation and centralized provisioning of location information derived from heterogeneous networks and readily available positioning systems using distributed heterogeneous location platforms. The architecture is specified using an abstract system model. It contains functional components structured by three major core processes representing its initialization, positioning, and self-optimization properties. Client-based sensor mechanisms paired with centralized knowledge databases and community user models have been combined to provide a self-optimizing and domain independent location service framework.