Location-based Services (LBSs) are mobile services for providing information that has been
created, compiled, selected or filtered under consideration of the users' current locations or …

This paper describes current and proposed protocols for mobility management for public
land mobile network (PLMN)-based networks, mobile Internet protocol (IP) wireless …

A relative newcomer to the field of wireless communications, ad hoc networking is growing
quickly, both in its importance and its applications. With rapid advances in hardware …

Consider a database that represents information about moving objects and their location.
For example, for a database representing the location of taxi-cabs a typical query may be …

This paper introduces a mobility tracking mechanism that combines a movement-based
location update policy with a selective paging scheme. Movement-based location update is …

In this paper, we consider databases representing information about moving objects (eg,
vehicles), particularly their location. We address the problems of updating and querying …

Location tracking operations in a personal communications services (PCSs) network are
expensive. Several strategies have been proposed to reduce the location update cost. This …

Within the wide range of issues related to 4G wireless networks, due to the scope of the
ISSTA conference, in this presentation we highlight some segments of wireless networks …

Mobile wireless networks pose interesting challenges for routing system design. To produce
feasible routes in a mobile wireless network, a routing system must be able to accommodate …

Earth date, August 11, 1997" Beam me up Scottie!"" We cannot do it! This is not Star Trek's
Enterprise. This is early years Earth." True, this is not yet the era of Star Trek, we cannot …