Applying Position Prediction as a Means for Performance-tuning in Location-aware Platforms

With the constantly increasing number of mobile devices performance becomes more and more essential for location aware platforms. Position prediction can help to improve the overall performance of such location-aware platform, e.g. by reducing latencies during handovers. But this goal can only be achieved if the prediction mechanism provides a high accuracy and if it does not consume relevant computing resources. Here we are discussing a simple position prediction approach that meets both requirements. Depending on the parameters for position update and position prediction its accuracy is better than 85 per cent. In addition a single prediction is calculated in less than 0.02 millisecond on a state of the art processor.