Utilizing Context in Location-Aware Short-Range Wireless Communication

Table 1

MEN key properties (subset from [3]).

Property	Notes
Small data size	1–100 kilobytes. (Short duration of encounter connections.)
Low security	Public data. (Compare to hand-out flyers.)
Low dependability and low value	The user may do almost as well without it. (No mission-critical information.)
Locality	The usefulness of the information has high dependency on the current location.
Short life-cycle	Information may be valid only from minutes to days.
Faster distribution	Even the fastest direct marketing is slower.
Sharp focus	Combination of locality and speed of the communication.
Invisibility	Wireless connection does not give indications of the other user(s) presence or exact location.