(ALN): The applications, which are running in the hosts, can create a virtual network from their logical connections. This is also called overlay network. The operations of such software entities are not able to understand without knowing their logical relations. In most cases these ALN software entities use the P2P model (see below), not the client/server (see below) for the communication.
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Multicast Over Location-Based Services
Péter Hegedüs (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary), Mihály Orosz (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary), Gábor Hosszú (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary), and Ferenc Kovács (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
Copyright: © 2009
|Pages: 7
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-995-3.ch030
Abstract
This chapter details the potential found in combining to different technologies. The two basically different technologies, LBSs in mobile communication and the well-elaborated multicast technology are merged in the multicast via LBS solutions. As this chapter demonstrates, this emerging new area has a lot of possibilities, which have not been completely utilized.