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Predator: A Distributed Location Service and Example Applications

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This paper introduces a simple distributed location service, suitable for deployment on a wide variety of heterogeneous platforms and which is scalable to cope with location forwarding on a global scale. Also described are two existing applications of the Predator location service, in particular to support of a wireless-via-wired routing service for low-power mobile devices, suitable for deployment both in-building and over a wide area.

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  1. Laboratory for Communications Engineering, Cambridge University Engineering Department, Cambridge, England

    J. N. Weatherall & A. Hopper

  2. AT&T Laboratories Cambridge, 24a Trumpington Street, Cambridge, England

    A. Hopper

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  1. Fraunhofer IPSI, Darmstadt, Germany

    Norbert A. Streitz

  2. HCI Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, 15213, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Jane Siegel

  3. Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics School for Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University, 15213, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Volker Hartkopf

  4. IPSI - Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute, GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology, Dolivostr. 15, D-64293, Darmstadt, Germany

    Shin’ichi Konomi

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Weatherall, J.N., Hopper, A. (1999). Predator: A Distributed Location Service and Example Applications. In: Streitz, N.A., Siegel, J., Hartkopf, V., Konomi, S. (eds) Cooperative Buildings. Integrating Information, Organizations, and Architecture. CoBuild 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1670. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10705432_12

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