Location Query Based on Moving Behaviors

The importance of location prediction is rapidly increasing with the current trend of database applications in mobile computing environment. However, current personal communication services network could only provide currently maintained location information of non-idle mobile terminals. Pertinent researches predict the future location based on tangent velocity approaches, which require mobile terminals to spend lots of precious electronic power to sense and then measure a sequence of positions for predicting the future tangent velocity, and the prediction is effective only within a short range of time. In this study, we propose an approach to predict future locations of mobile terminals based on the moving behaviors mined from their long-term moving history. Location prediction based on moving behavior requires no power consumption for position measurement, and the prediction results are effective for a long time without requiring the queried clients to be non-idle. With the help of ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: DEXA
• Authors: Ming-Hui Jin, Eric Hsiao-Kuang Wu, Jorng-Tzong Horng
• Keywords: DEXA 2003, Future Locations, Location Prediction, Mobile Terminals