Enabling Energy-Efficient and Quality Localization Services

  • Authors:
  • Tsung-Han Lin;Polly Huang;Hao-hua Chu;Hsing-Hau Chen;Ju-Peng Chen

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electrical Engineering National Taiwan University;Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia National Taiwan University;Computer Science and Information Engineering National Taiwan University;Department of Electrical Engineering National Taiwan University;Department of Electrical Engineering National Taiwan University

  • Venue:
  • PERCOMW '06 Proceedings of the 4th annual IEEE international conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Recent localization research has focused on improving the accuracy of pinpointing the physical location of a target. We think that the energy efficiency and the quality of the localization services (QoLS) are equally important properties of localization systems. We refer to the QoLS as the timely supply of the location information to the applications. Energy efficiency and quality are seemingly two contradictive goals in terms of determining the rate of triggering the localization systems to perform the necessary computation and communication. In that, a lower location sampling rate contributes to a lower level of energy consumption but in the meantime compromises the timeliness of acquiring the location information. Opting for energy efficient and quality localization services, we propose a mobility-aware mechanism that adapts the sampling rate to the target mobility. Results from our simulations confirm that the adaptive sampling approach is promising and effective.