Holger Kirchner, Zhou Wang

Support Location-Awareness in Service Discovery for Mobile Users

Fraunhofer IPSI (Germany)

Today, more and more users can access networked services by using portable devices and easily accessible wireless connections, even while on the move. However, users often receive a vast amount of unnecessary service offers, which makes it difficult for them to find and select the services they really need. In this paper we enhance the service discovery approach with location- awareness to assist mobile users in locating services more easily and efficiently.