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What is Geocast

Chapter 30
Handbook of Research on Geoinformatics
One-to-many communications among communicating entities, where an entity in the root of the multicast distribution tree sends data to that certain subset of the entities in the multicast dissemination tree, which are in a specific geographical area.
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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.
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