An Infrastructure for Context Dependent Mobile Communication

TR-2003-39, Authors: John Aasted Sørensen, Kåre Jelling Kristoffersen, Anders Cervera, Martin Schiøtz, Thomas Lynge, Zoltan Safar and Lars Birkedal

John Aa. Sørensen
Kåre J. Kristoffersen
Anders Cervera
Martin Schiøtz
Thomas Lynge
Zoltan Safar
Lars Birkedal

November 2003

Abstract

The initial work on an indoor infrastructure for con-text dependent mobile communication is described. The aim is to enable simultaneously research and software development at the Application and Service Level, at the System Software Level and finally at the Basic Technology Level. The research is carried out by a loosely coupled community of researchers mostly specializing into work at one of the infra-structure levels. The infrastructure consists of an IEEE 802.11b WLAN coverage of the indoor site, a system for indoor positioning, a generally available Java interface to communication and positioning, and a software repository. The paper describes the initial experiences on the implementation and appli-cation of the infrastructure on a part of the university indoor site of approx. 1200 m2. Finally some future perspectives are discussed.

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Technical report TR-2003-39 in IT University Technical Report Series, November 2003.

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