Title :
Developing location based services in Parlay/OSA
Author :
Masenya, L. ; Hanrahan, H. ; Dwolatzky, B. ; Van Olst
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Inf. Eng., Univ. of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Abstract :
Open standards have the potential to greatly simplify the way a utility´s infrastructure is developed. Moreover the software development process of applications based on that infrastructure is improved. To facilitate the development of location based services (LBS), Parlay/OSA is used as an open standard development platform for such services. It supports application programming interfaces for accessing different network architectures that can be used by LBS services to query for location of a mobile. The Parlay/OSA framework also addresses security concerns. For LBS services to be complete, a geospatial database must be used to provide information based on location. An extension to the Parlay/OSA gateway is thus proposed to encapsulate the necessary APIs for querying geospatial databases.
Keywords :
data encapsulation; mobile communication; software engineering; telecommunication security; telecommunication services; visual databases; LBS; OGIS; Parlay/OSA framework; Parlay/OSA gateway; encapsulation; location based services; network architecture accessing; open standard development platform; programming interfaces; querying geospatial databases; security concerns; software development process; utilities infrastructure; Application software; Cost function; Data security; Databases; Hoses; Large Hadron Collider; Software standards; Standards development; Switches; Telecommunication network management;
Conference_Titel :
AFRICON, 2004. 7th AFRICON Conference in Africa
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8605-1
DOI :
10.1109/AFRICON.2004.1406878
