Open AccessA P2P-based Communication Framework for Geo-Location Oriented Networks
Author(s) -
Takumi Miyoshi,
Yusuke Sato,
Olivier Fourmaux
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of telecommunications and information technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.151
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1899-8852
pISSN - 1509-4553
DOI - 10.26636/jtit.2019.131119
Subject(s) - geolocation , computer science , computer network , peer to peer , mobile device , android (operating system) , popularity , location awareness , location based service , wireless , overlay , wireless network , distributed computing , telecommunications , world wide web , operating system , psychology , social psychology
This paper proposes a novel peer-to-peer communication framework to implement geographical location oriented networks, called G-LocON. Location-based services have been gaining in popularity, as proven by ridesharing and mobile games. Although these services have to construct geolocation oriented networks based on their users’ geographical locations, they completely rely on client/server models to communicate with neighboring terminals. G-LocON provides geolocation oriented device-to-device communication only with the current wireless technologies, such as LTE and Wi-Fi, cooperating with the global positioning system and peer-to-peer overlay networking. G-LocON will serve as a type of a mobile ad-hoc network in which devices located within the focusing area are capable of communicating directly. We developed a primitive Android application to implement the GLocON framework. Evaluation of the solution’s performance has veried the usefulness of the proposed system that oers an admissive transmission delay. Moreover, to conrm the application-related potential of the G-LocON framework, we also show a practical map software in which all neighboring mobile devices present in the focusing area are displayed.