Enabling location specific real-time mobile applications

  • Authors:
  • Ravi Kokku;Karthik Sundaresan;Guofei Jiang

  • Affiliations:
  • NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, NJ, USA;NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, NJ, USA;NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, NJ, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Mobility in the evolving internet architecture
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

As cellular networks open up and foster the deployment of richer user-centric mobile services, we envision the evolution of a new class of services that involve significant mobile user collaboration for making the services realizable and rapidly deployable. Our position is grounded on the intuition that mobile devices that users carry can act as "powerful" sensors for diverse information about a specific location, and can aid in providing real-time updates to other interested users that are not present at the location. Realizing such services is, however, challenging due to the need for several mechanisms such as (a) incentives for participation from users and network providers, (b) location-specific data collection and delivery and (c) determining trust in users providing updates. These mechanisms become significantly more complex to realize with user mobility. Unifying these mechanisms, in this paper, we propose a framework FLORA that enables rapid evolution of location specific real-time services.