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BibliographyFarrell, Tobias; Cheng, Reynold; Rothermel, Kurt: Energy-Efficient Monitoring of Mobile Objects with Uncertainty-Aware Tolerances.
In: Desai, Bipin C. (ed.); Barker, Ken (ed.): Proceedings of the 11th International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium (IDEAS 2007); Banff, Canada, September 6-8, 2007.
University of Stuttgart : Collaborative Research Center SFB 627 (Nexus: World Models for Mobile Context-Based Systems).
pp. 129-140, english.
IEEE Computer Society, September 2007.
ISBN: 0-7695-2947-X; DOI: 10.1109/IDEAS.2007.4318097.
Article in Proceedings (Conference Paper).
CR-SchemaC.2 (Computer-Communication Networks)
Abstract

In location-based services, continuous queries are often employed to monitor the locations of mobile ob-jects that are determined by sensing devices like GPS receivers. Due to limited battery resources, it is impor-tant for these objects to acquire and report location data only if necessary. We study how these energy-consuming operations can be reduced with a con-trolled impact on query accuracy of continuous range queries (CRQs). Specifically, we develop uncertainty-aware tolerances, which are user-defined error bounds that provide correctness guarantees, with considera-tion of different sources of data uncertainty: sensing uncertainty, sampling uncertainty, and communication delay. Novel algorithms are developed to control carefully when an object should acquire and update a location, while satisfying these tolerances. Extensive simulations validate the effectiveness of our methods.

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ContactTobias.Farrell@ipvs.uni-stuttgart.de
Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Distributed Systems
Project(s)SFB-627, B3 (University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Distributed Systems)
SFB-627, B5 (University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Distributed Systems)
Entry dateAugust 28, 2007