Providing Location Abstract Information in a Ubiquitous Computing Environment
Abstract:
To take full advantage of the promise of ubiquitous computing requires the use of location information, yet peo-ple should have control over who may know their where-abouts. We present an architecture that achieves these goals for an interesting set of applications. Personal in-formation is managed by User Agents, and a partially decentralized Location Query Service is used to facili-tate location-based operations. This architecture gives users primary control over their location information, at the cost of making more expensive certain queries, such as those wherein location and identity closely interact. We also discuss various extensions to our architecture that offer users additional trade-offs between privacy and efficiency. Finally, we report some measurements of the unextended system in operation, focusing on how well the system is actually able to track people. Our sys-tem uses two kinds of location information, which turn out to provide partial and complementary coverage. 1
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