The location stack: a layered model for location in ubiquitous computing

By Jeffrey Hightower, Barry Brumitt, Gaetano Borriello. Proceedings Fourth IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, 2002

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Citations in the corpus

• On location models for ubiquitous computing (2004, background): “Fusing aspects of different positioning systems into a common location framework are presented in [8].”
• Applications of context-aware computing in hospital work: examples and design principles (2004, background): “• Support for Activities – The reason for capturing location and other context information is typically not for direct use in applications but to enable the reasoning at the level of user activities [13, 8].”
• Pedestrian localisation for indoor environments (2008, methodology): “as an abstraction for location-aware computing analogous to the Open System Interconnect (OSI) model for computer networks [20, 21].”
• A survey of context modelling and reasoning techniques (2010, background): “[65] proposed the Location Stack, where they argued that uncertainty must be preserved.”
• A survey of indoor positioning systems for wireless personal networks (2009, methodology): “The system architecture of the location-aware computing systems [ 17 ] is illustrated in the Figure 2, which includes 3 layers, the location sensing systems, the software location abstractions and the location-based applications.”
• Modeling of indoor positioning systems based on location fingerprinting (2004, methodology): “Alternatively, a location system can be viewed from a software engineering perspective using a location stack (analogous to the OSI protocol stack) proposed by Hightower et al [24].”
• The Java Context Awareness Framework (JCAF) - A Service Infrastructure and Programming Framework for Context-Aware Applications (2005, background): “Furthermore, applications are concerned with the quality of context information, including uncertainty [16, 24].”