Redundant positioning architecture

Computer Communications

Volumn 28, Issue 13 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 1575-1585

  Pfeifer, Tom ^a  

^a Ireland   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Context awareness; Distributed objects; Location awareness; Positioning

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE COMPUTING; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; REDUNDANCY;

CONTEXT AWARENESS; DISTRIBUTED OBJECTS; LOCATION AWARENESS; POSITIONING;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 23844522640     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2004.12.042     Document Type: Article

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