StarTrack: a framework for enabling track-based applications

Mobile devices are increasingly equipped with hardware and software services allowing them to determine their locations, but support for building location-aware applications remains rudimentary. This paper proposes tracks ion coordinates as a high-level abstraction for a new class of mobile applications including ride sharing, location-based collaboration, and health monitoring. Each track is a sequence of entries recording a person's time, location, and application-specific data. StarTrack provides applications with a comprehensive set of operations for recording, comparing, clustering and querying tracks. StarTrack can efficiently operate on thousands of tracks.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: MOBISYS
• Authors: Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Maya Haridasan, Iqbal Mohomed, Doug Terry, Chandramohan A. Thekkath
• Keywords: Location-aware Applications, Mobile Applications, MOBISYS 2009, Paper Proposes Tracks, Wireless Networks