Abstract
Today, location based services (LBS) are becoming quite popular in wireless networks. Innovative applications in the areas of navigation, tracking, location based advertising etc. are providing good revenue resources to operators. Simultaneously there are improvements taking place in positioning techniques. Both network based and handset based positioning techniques are improving in accuracy and cost efficiency. However, today location data is mainly used for providing application services.

Operation of the network or the handset itself does not depend on mobile terminal location information. It is possible to use location information effectively to improve efficiency of wireless networks, thereby providing better quality of service (QoS) to users. This white paper describes how location information can be used for improving performance of mobile wireless networks and explains the impact of this on the architecture of future networks. Some familiarity with 3G wireless networks is assumed here and hence all the concepts are not explained in the paper.

Author Nitin S Chaudhari

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