Ch.Sai Monish C.S.

E 4/4 1st sem 1602-09-733-136

Contents
Introduction Rover Services Rover Architecture Rover Clients Rover Controller Rover Database Bottlenecks Conclusions

Introduction
Shop to Shop utilization

Information on newly - released data in his favorite categories are

downloaded automatically into his PDA , along with their availability information.

We refer to this paradigm

as Location aware computing.

Scalability
Traditional notions of Time-aware, User-aware, and

Device-aware. + Local-aware (in Rover).

location service that can track the location of every user,

either by automated location determination technology or by the user manually entering current location.
Available via a variety of wireless access technologies.

(IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs, Bluetooth, Infrared, cellular services)

Scales to a very large client population. Rover achieves this through fine resolution application specific scheduling of resources at the servers and the network. Devices (laptop, PDA, cellular phone)

Rover Services
Enables a Basic set of data services in different media formats, including text, graphics, audio, and video.

Transactional services coordination of state between the clients and rover servers. ex) e-commerce interactions

Rover Services
Services that require location manipulation are

a particularly important class of data services in Rover.

Locations an important attribute of all objects in Rover. value, error, timestamp

Map based services

Filter : Applied to maps to select the appropriate subset of objects to display to the users. Zoom : Displayed map identifies its granularity.

Translate : Translated from the previously displayed map.

Rover Architecture
Rover maintains a user profile for each end-user,

that defines specific interests of the user and is used to customize the content served.
Rover-clients are the client devices through which users interact with Rover. Rover maintains a device profile for each device.

Rover physical architecture

Wireless access infrastructure Servers Rover controller

Brain of Rover system

Location server Media streaming unit Rover database Logger

Rover physical architecture

Action model
Ready-to-run: At least one action of the server operation is

eligible to be executed but no action of the server operation is executing.

Running: One action of the server operation is executing ( in a

multi-processor setup, several actions of the operation can be executing simultaneously ).

Blocked: The server operation is waiting for asynchronous I/O

response and no actions are eligible to be executed.

Actions vs Threads

Overheads

Rover logical architecture

Rover Database
User infobase and Content infobase.

Avoiding Deadlocks - Two phase Locking Protocol

 Each transaction is identified - Lock-Acquiring - Blocking

Multi Rover System

Each separate museum has its independent administrative authority. Therefore, we can have

a separate Rover system for each of the different museums that are administered separately by each museum authority.

Initial Implementation
Indoor and Outdoor environments.

- developed under the Linux operating system. - Compaq iPAQs Pocket PC.
A GPS-device to the Compaq iPAQs and

obtained device location accuracy of between 3-4 meters of outdoor.

Initial Implementation
12 base stations that are distributed all over the building and typically the client device can

receive signals from five or six of the base stations. University of Maryland.
get an accuracy of better than a meter in this environment, using very simple signal strength based estimation techniques.

Bottlenecks
A large number of client requests with tight real time constraints. Wireless access points

Limited bandwidth.

Conclusions
Its believed that Rover Technology will greatly enhance the user experience in a large number of places, including visits to museums, amusement and theme parks, shopping malls, game fields, offices and business centers.
The system has been designed specifically to scale to large user populations. Therefore, its expected that the

benefits of this system to be higher in such large user population environments.

Bibliography
www.wikipedia.com www.cs.odu.edu www.citeseerx.ist.psu.edu