Positioning & Location – Advanced

Part 1:  Review of Basics

• Positioning Methods
  • Terrestrial vs. Satellite
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  • Data, Systems, and Management
• Location Management
  • User Plane vs. Control Plane
  • Standardized Architectures
  • Call/Message Flows

 

Part 2: Next Generation Location

• What Is Next Generation Location?
  • Leveraging NGN Architectures
  • Leveraging IP, Data, and Non-voice Applications
  • Leveraging Presence and Autonomous Methods
  • Leveraging Ubiquity of Location-enabled Content and Applications
• Drivers for Next Generation Location
  • Proliferation and Use of Smart-phones and Non-voice Communications
  • Location Becomes Mainstream: Flat Hierarchy (Google) and Brokering (Loc-aid)
  • Concerns for Personal Safety: NG 9-1-1 and Personal Safety Applications
  • Deployment of NGN: IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)
  • Consumer Acceptance of Location in their Daily Life

 

Part 3: NG Location Technologies, Solutions and Issues

• IP Systems
  • Differences between IP and TDM
  • Location and VoIP
  • IP and Non-voice Applications
• Presence Systems
  • What Is “Presence” in Telecommunications?
  • Presence vs. Location
  • Methods for Obtaining Presence
  • Managing Presence Data
  • Presence-based Applications
• IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and Location
  • NGN Intelligence: Introduction to IMS
  • Inherent Presence in IMS: The Power of SIP
  • Presence and Location Management in IMS
  • Example Application: E 9-1-1 over IMS
• Identity Management Systems
  • What Is Identity Management?
  • Why Is Identity important to Presence and Location?
• Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Communications
  • What is M2M?
  • It’s Not Just about People: Tracking Assets, Telemetry and More
  • Different Players and Rules Apply to M2M
• Location Brokering, Mediation, and Federation
  • Presence and Location Intermediation
  • Evolution and Business Model
  • Network Entities, Business Entities, and Interactions

 

Part 4: NG Location Applications

• Public and Personal Safety
  • NG 9-1-1
  • Personal Safety Applications
• Presence and Autonomous Location-based
  • Mobile Advertising/Marketing
  • Mobile Commerce and Contactless Payments
  • Social Networking and Location Sharing
  • Homeland Security and Law Enforcement
• Behavior-based and Context-based Location Applications
  • Places: Where have you been and Where are you Likely to Go?
  • Things: What Do You Care About?
  • Relationships: Who and What Do You Interact With?
  • User Control: Who/What Is Allowed to Know All of This?
• Advanced Location Systems and Applications
  • Location-based Augmented Reality
  • Cross Platform: Mobile, PC, TV, Car, Kiosk, and More
  • User Generated Content (UGC) and Syndication
  • Autonomous Information Services: Info Finds You (and not vice versa)

 

Part 5: Role of the Location Mediator

• Location Mediation
  • What is Location Mediation?
  • Responsibilities of the Mediator
• Beyond Location Brokering
  • Identity Management
  • Quality of Service (Qos) and SLA’s
  • Billing and Settlement
  • Network and Protocol Interoperability

 

Part 6: NG Location Challenges

• Privacy and Security
• Consumer Acceptance
• Network Readiness
• Legal and Regulatory

 

Part 7 – Workshop: Designing an NG Location Application/System*

• Application Design
  • Commercial vs. Non-commercial
  • Unique Requirements for Application
• System Design
  • Positioning Requirements
  • Location Management Requirements
  • GIS Requirements
  • Other Requirements

* Instructor-provided choices of applications are provided

 

Part 8: State of the Art for NG Location

• North America
  • Latest FCC Order
  • Public and Personal Safety
  • Homeland Security
• Middle East
  • Saudi Arabia
• Asia Pacific
  • India
  • Australia

 

Part 9: Anticipated Developments

• Pervasive and Presence and Location Becomes Practical
  • Device Improvements: Smarter, Faster Processors, Better Batteries
  • Hierarchical approach to Presence/Location
  • More Data Capacity: 4G and Beyond
• Homeland Security and Law Enforcement
  • Tracking and Profiling
  • Selective Denial of Service
• Consumer Identity and Location Verification
  • Identity and Behavior Theft Prevention
  • Selective Denial of Service
• Advanced M2M Communications
  • Machines talking to Machines (and they are all location and context aware)
  • M2M and Humans: Machine-assisted, Location-aware Applications
• Wrap-up
  • Course recap
  • Discussion
  • Participant Evaluation of the Course