Mirko Knoll

Geostry: a Peer-to-peer System for Location-based Information Mirko Knoll

Recently, miniature systems are integrated into everyday objects making these objects "smart". Thereby, everyday objects can gather information about their state and environment. By embedding this information into a model of the real world, it is possible to generate powerful digital world models. However, we can also link additional information to these objects. The result is a symbiosis of real world and digital information spaces. In this book, we present a system that allows for an easy access to this information. Geostry bases on a peer-to-peer system and thus incorporates all the advantages, such as self- organization, fairness, scalability and many more. Thereby, Geostry covers all aspects from bootstrapping a network, providing access to geographic-related information and replication methods to provide accessibility in times of high loads.