LOC3 Architecture Proposal for Efficient Subscriber Localisation in Mobile Commerce Infrastructures

The following paper proposes a new approach for providing localisation of mobile subscribers. Since various different localisation technologies have entered the mobile mass-market, mobile applications requiring location information are increasingly challenged by the complexity of selecting and accessing appropriate localisation sources. Addressing this development, an integrative platform is proposed, enabling unified access to the most suitable localisation technology by taking into account accuracy, availability and costs. By assembling state-of-the-art localisation technologies to an implementation called LOC3, the feasibility of the outlined architecture approach is proven.