Monte Carlo sampling based in-home location tracking with minimal RF infrastructure requirements

GLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference

Volumn 6, Issue , 2004, Pages 3624-3629

  Záruba, Gergely V ^a   Huber, Manfred ^a   Kamangar, Farhad A ^a   Chlamtac, Imrich ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Geo positioning; Localization; Ray tracing; RSSI

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN FILTERING; LOCALIZATION; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH INDICATION (RSSI); WI-FI;

DIGITAL FILTERS; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); MOBILE COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RAY TRACING; SENSORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 18144400932     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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