Summary
IEICE Information and Communication Technology Forum
2018
Session Number:SESSION04
Session:
Number:SESSION04_3
G-LocON: A P2P-based Communication Framework for Geo-Location Oriented Networks
Takumi Miyoshi, Yusuke Shimomura, Olivier Fourmaux,
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Publication Date:2018/8/31
Online ISSN:2188-5079
DOI:10.34385/proc.32.SESSION04_3
Summary:
This paper proposes a novel peer-to-peer communication framework to realize geographical location oriented networks called G-LocON. Location based services have been getting popular as typified by ridesharing and mobile games. Although these services have to construct geo-location oriented networks based on users' geographical locations, they completely rely on client/server models to communicate with neighboring terminals. G-LocON, the proposed communication framework, provides geo-location oriented device-to-device communication only with the current wireless technologies such as LTE and Wi-Fi, cooperating with global positioning system and peer-to-peer overlay networking. We introduce a location tracker, which maintains location information of user devices and helps them find the neighboring devices. After obtaining the neighbor peers list, each device can establish peer-to-peer connections to the neighbors and then directly communicate to them without relaying any server. G-LocON will thus realize a kind of mobile ad-hoc network in which devices in a focusing area can directly communicate among them.