TY - GEN
T1 - A two-layer approach for energy efficiency in mobile location sensing applications
AU - Chang, Yi Yin
AU - Lin, Cheng Yu
AU - Chen, Ling Jyh
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported in part by the National Science Council of Taiwan under Grants: NSC 100-2631-S-003-006, NSC 100-2219-E-001-001, and NSC 100-2219-E-001-002.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Mobile location sensing applications (MLSAs) represent an emerging genre of applications that exploit Global Positioning System (GPS) technology and facilitate location-based services. The design of MLSAs must incorporate a tradeoff between information accuracy and energy efficiency because GPS technology and data communications are energy expensive and unaffordable for most MLSA platforms, which are battery-powered and therefore resource-constrained. In this study, we propose a two-layer solution to address the above issue. The solution comprises an Event-based GPS Tracking (EBT) scheme and an Inter-Frame Coding (IFC) scheme for energy efficiency on the MLSA GPS tracking and data communication layers respectively. Using a comprehensive set of evaluations, as well as realistic MLSA traces, we evaluate the proposed solution in terms of power saving, location accuracy, and the data compression ratio. The results demonstrate that our solution can achieve better energy efficiency while preserving good location accuracy in all test cases. Moreover, the scheme is simple, effective, and generalizable to other mobile location sensing applications.
AB - Mobile location sensing applications (MLSAs) represent an emerging genre of applications that exploit Global Positioning System (GPS) technology and facilitate location-based services. The design of MLSAs must incorporate a tradeoff between information accuracy and energy efficiency because GPS technology and data communications are energy expensive and unaffordable for most MLSA platforms, which are battery-powered and therefore resource-constrained. In this study, we propose a two-layer solution to address the above issue. The solution comprises an Event-based GPS Tracking (EBT) scheme and an Inter-Frame Coding (IFC) scheme for energy efficiency on the MLSA GPS tracking and data communication layers respectively. Using a comprehensive set of evaluations, as well as realistic MLSA traces, we evaluate the proposed solution in terms of power saving, location accuracy, and the data compression ratio. The results demonstrate that our solution can achieve better energy efficiency while preserving good location accuracy in all test cases. Moreover, the scheme is simple, effective, and generalizable to other mobile location sensing applications.
KW - GPS tracking
KW - energy efficiency
KW - location sensing
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-30054-7_24
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-30054-7_24
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84861682704
SN - 9783642300530
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 304
EP - 315
BT - NETWORKING 2012 - 11th International IFIP TC 6 Networking Conference, Proceedings
T2 - 11th International IFIP TC 6 Networking Conference, NETWORKING 2012
Y2 - 21 May 2012 through 25 May 2012
ER -
