The theory and practice of signal strength-based location estimation

2005 International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Krishnakumar, A S ^a   Krishnan, P ^a  

^a AVAYA LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Deployment; Location estimation; Lower bound; Management; Signal strength; Wireless

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

ENTERPRISE NETWORKS; LOCATION ESTIMATION; LOWER BOUND; SIGNAL STRENGTH; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY;

POSITION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 33947664409     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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