When location-based services meet databases

  • Authors:
  • Dik Lun Lee;Manli Zhu;Haibo Hu

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Comp. Sci., Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. and Technol., Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong (Correspd. Context-Aware Sys. Dept., Inst. for Infocomm Res., 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore. dlee@cs.ust ...;Context-Aware Systems Department, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore;Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong

  • Venue:
  • Mobile Information Systems
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

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 our research in location modeling and updates and techniques for enhancing system performance by caching and batch processing. It can be observed that the challenges facing LBSs share a lot of similarity with traditional database research (i.e., data modeling, indexing, caching, and query optimization) but the fact that LBSs are built into the physical space and the opportunity to exploit spatial locality in system design shed new light on LBS research.