Wireless location-aware networking

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Handheld wireless communications devices are now nearly ubiquitous in Canadian society. Users of wireless devices are demanding applications that allow them to take full advantage of the ability to communicate while they are mobile. The objective of this project is to integrate location awareness into wireless local area and wireless metropolitan area networks, such as IEEE 802.11 and 802.16 based networks, so the users and operators of these networks may take full advantage of the mobility and continuous connectivity offered by these networks.  This integration consists of finding new location estimation technologies as well as the development of applications that use location information.The first stage of the project will focus on the development of location estimation techniques that can accurately locate mobile terminals without requiring additional hardware in the wireless network base stations or user terminals.  Machine learning and sequential estimation techniques will be used to obtain accurate location information from measurements already available within the wireless networks. When location estimation systems have been developed, applications and network control systems that use the location information will be created. Explorations to find the best methods of exchanging information between the location-estimation systems, user applications, and network control systems will be performed.  This project will develop methods for the integration of the principles of location-aware computing into the standard wireless networks, as wireless local area networks, that the majority of Canadian now access every day.  This will expand the capabilities of these networks beyond just the replacement of wired networks.  Applications that take advantage of the mobile access these networks will then be enabled.