A context-aware location service for metropolitan ad hoc networks

This paper presents a node location service for metropolitan Ad Hoc networks. The new system is innovative because it exploits context information in its internal polices. Context information is referred as knowledge about metropolitan user mobility patterns. In urban areas people do not uniformly distribute. Specific zones, defined as hot spots, work like assembly points, where people show predictive mobility. This zones are office buildings, shopping malls and similar operational contexts. The paper shows how a hot spots aware node location service could better find nodes where to publish and retrieve updated position. This proposal paper mainly focuses on protocol aspects, showing mechanisms to let the system adaptable to the inherent dynamic conditions of an Ad Hoc network.