Architecture and Scalability Issues for the Provision of Anonymous Real-Time Mobile Community Services

Author

Adamopoulou, E. ; Demestichas, K. ; Dessiniotis, C. ; Markoulidakis, J. ; Theologou, M.

Author_Institution

Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Athens

fYear

2007

fDate

3-7 Sept. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper analyzes the concept of Anonymous Real-Time Mobile Community (ART-MC) services, which enables the real-time collection of information residing in a community of mobile terminals, which can then be processed and delivered to a service requesting terminal. An example application is the provision of real-time information concerning road-traffic conditions, based on the location and velocity of mobile terminals. The ART-MC concept requires the deployment of an appropriate software client at the terminal side, as well as the deployment of an ART-MC Server at the network side. The proposed architecture is presented and explained in detail. Anonymity and privacy issues are addressed, and an extensive analysis regarding scalability is given. Finally, additional example applications of the ART-MC concept are listed.

Keywords

information networks; mobile computing; anonymous real-time mobile community service; mobile terminal community; real-time information collection; road-traffic condition; scalability issue; service requesting terminal; Application software; Computer architecture; Context; GSM; Information analysis; Land mobile radio; Mobile communication; Network servers; Privacy; Scalability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2007. PIMRC 2007. IEEE 18th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Athens

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1144-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1144-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.2007.4394197

Filename

4394197