Location Discovery using Ad Hoc Networks

This paper presents a generic service which allows a device to discover the location of other devices in an ad hoc network. The service has advantages in a variety of scenarios, since it does not rely on location infrastructures such as GPS satellites or GSM cellular base stations. An outline of the technology that will be needed to realise the service is given, along with a look at the fundamental security issues which surround the use of this location discovery service.