Location TrackingCellular UplinkCellular Data TransmissionLocation AwarenessMobile ComputingMobile Positioning DataLocation InformationLocation ManagementCentral Server
A typical online GPS tracking system uses a cellular uplink to report the location of a device to a central server, and in a study based on 1.6 billion location updates we find at least 90% are sent with a fixed 1--300 second period. Through experiments with the cost of cellular data transmission we also find that every packet sent incurs significant overhead.
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Arvind Thiagarajan, Lenin Ravindranath, Katrina LaCurts et al. · 2009 · 784 citations
Energy-accuracy trade-off for continuous mobile device location
Kaisen Lin, Aman Kansal, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos et al. · 2010 · 277 citations
Adaptive Location Service, Engineering, Wearable Technology +16