A Review in Efficient Mobile Object Tracking Techniques

Nowadays, wireless communication systems are becoming increasingly popular, resulting in new computing paradigms. This phenomenon stimulates the development of new distributed systems and applications, over wireless infrastructures, which assimilate the notion of mobility. Mobility rises naturally in wireless environments for they facilitate convenient location changes. On the other hand, the population boom of mobile inexpensive devices with advanced computational capabilities, that we are witnessing, fuels the development of distributed information services over wireless/mobile infrastructures. Inside these ubiquitous computing environments, a mobile workforce needs to locate other mobile objects (e.g., data or devices). In this work we present the most widely researched solutions to the general problem of managing location changes and we debate on the advantages and disadvantages of these techniques.

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