Hierarchical Structured Multi-agent for Distributed Databases in Location Based Services

  • Mateo Romeo Mark A. (School of Electronoc and Information Engineering, Kunsan National University) ;
  • Lee Jaewan (School of Electronoc and Information Engineering, Kunsan National University) ;
  • Kwon Oh-Hyun (Department of Computer Engineer, Tongmyong University)
  • Published : 2005.12.01

Abstract

Location management is very important in location-based services to provide services to the mobile users like banking, city guides and many more. Ubiquitous and mobile devices are the source of data in location management and its significant operations are update and search method. Some studies to improve these were presented by using optimal sequential paging, location area scheme and hierarchical database scheme. In addition, not all location services have the same access methods on data and it lead to difficulties of providing services. A proposed location management of multi-agent architecture is presented in this study. It shows the coordination of the agents on the distributed database of location-based services. The proposal focuses on the location management of the mobile object presented in a hierarchical search and update. Also, it uses a nearest neighbor technique for efficient search method of mobile objects.

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