Calibration-free WLAN location system based on dynamic mapping of signal strength

MobiWAC 2006 - Proceedings of the 2006 ACM International Workshop on Mobility Management and Wireless Access

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 92-99

  De Moraes, Luís Felipe M ^a   Nunes, Bruno Astuto A ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Calibration free; Propagation model; RF based location estimation; Wireless LAN; Wireless sniffers

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; USER INTERFACES;

CALIBRATION FREE; PROPAGATION MODELS; RF-BASED LOCATION ESTIMATION; WIRELESS SNIFFERS;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 34247331013     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1164783.1164799     Document Type: Conference Paper

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