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On a Location Model for Fine-Grained Geocast

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UbiComp 2003: Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2003)

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Geographic communication (geocast) is used to send messages to geographic areas, e.g. to distribute warning messages or other information within these areas. It is based on a location model which is used to define a message’s target area and the receivers’ positions and therefore has strong influence on the achievable granularity of geographic addressing.

A hybrid location model and a fine-grained addressing scheme for geocast based on this model are presented in this paper which support two- and three-dimensional geometric locations as well as symbolic locations like room numbers, embedded local coordinate systems, and mobile target areas like trains.

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  1. Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems (IPVS), University of Stuttgart, Universitätsstraße 38, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany

    Frank Dürr & Kurt Rothermel

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  1. Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave, PA 15213-3891, Pittsburgh, USA

    Anind K. Dey

  2. Pervasive Computing and User Interface Engineering, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

    Albrecht Schmidt

  3. Intel Research Seattle, 1100 NE 45th St., 6th Floor, 98105, Seattle, WA, USA

    Joseph F. McCarthy

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Dürr, F., Rothermel, K. (2003). On a Location Model for Fine-Grained Geocast. In: Dey, A.K., Schmidt, A., McCarthy, J.F. (eds) UbiComp 2003: Ubiquitous Computing. UbiComp 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2864. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39653-6_2

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