Location awareness is one of the key aspects for pervasive computing environments. It enables location data to be accessed and used anywhere by any application. Major challenges to design effective localization solutions are pervasive deployment and support for heterogeneous technologies. In our efforts to design an effective localization solution, we present a dynamic and efficient infrastructure independent layered architecture. The architecture is highly distributed, integrates inference engine to provide best location estimation for multiple technologies. Our architecture is efficient and comes across challenges in localization process such as computational power, reusability and components dependency.

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Authors and Affiliations

1. Domus Laboratory, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, J1K 2R1, Canada

   Omar Chakroun, Bessam Abdulrazak & Mauricio Chiazzaro

2. Sup’Com, Ariana, Tunisia

   Mounir Frikha

Editors and Affiliations

1. Yonsei University, 120-749, Seoul, Korea

   Yeunsook Lee  & Mignon Park  & 

2. Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, 689-798, Ulsan, Korea

   Z. Zenn Bien

3. Institut TELECOM/TELECOM SudParis, 91011, Evry Cedex, France

   Mounir Mokhtari

4. Kyung Hee University, 446-701, Yongin, Korea

   Jeong Tai Kim

5. National Rehabilitation Center Research Institute, 142-884, Seoul, Korea

   Jongbae Kim

6. Seoul National University of Technology, 139-743, Seoul, Korea

   Heyoung Lee

7. Johannes Kepler University Linz, 4040, Linz, Austria

   Ismail Khalil

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