We are witnessing in recent years growing interest for location-dependent information services among mobile users. This paper examines the issue of processing locationdependent qu...
Jianliang Xu, Baihua Zheng, Wang-Chien Lee, Dik Lu...
We consider queries which originate from a mobile unit and whose result depends on the location of the user who initiates the query. Example of such a query is How many people are ...
Sanjay Kumar Madria, Bharat K. Bhargava, Evaggelia...
The advances in wireless communication and decreasing costs of mobile devices have enabled users to access desired information at any time. Coupled with positioning technologies l...
In a mobile computing system, users carrying portable devices can access database services from any location without requiring a fixed position in the networking environment. Some ...
Wireless data broadcast has received a lot of attention from industries and academia in recent years. Access efficiency and energy conservation are two critical performance concer...