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Sixth IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (WMCSA'04)
pp. 51-60
Cell-ID Location Technique, Limits and Benefits: An Experimental Study
Emiliano Trevisani, Università di Roma "La Sapienza"
Andrea Vitaletti, Università di Roma "La Sapienza"
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The mobile phone market lacks a satisfactory location
technique that is accurate, but also economical and easy to
deploy. Current technology provides high accuracy, but requires
substantial technological and financial investment.
In this paper we present the results of experiments intended
to asses the accuracy of inexpensive Cell-ID location technique
and its suitability for the provisioning of location
based services. We first evaluate the accuracy of Cell-ID in
urban, suburban and highway scenarios (both in U.S. and
Italy), we then introduce the concepts of discovery-accuracy
and discovery-noise to estimate the impact of positioning
accuracy on the quality of resource discovery services. Experiments
show that the accuracy of Cell-ID is not satisfactory
as a general solution. In contrast we show how Cell-ID
can be effectively exploited to implement more effective and
efficient voice location-based services.
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Citation:
Emiliano Trevisani, Andrea Vitaletti,
"Cell-ID Location Technique, Limits and Benefits: An Experimental Study,"
wmcsa,
pp. 51-60,
Sixth IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (WMCSA'04),
2004
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