Kernel-based positioning in wireless local area networks

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 689-705

  Kushki, Azadeh ^a,b   Plataniotis, Konstantinos N ^a,b   Venetsanopoulos, Anastasios N ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Applications of pattern recognition; Location dependent and sensitive mobile applications; Nonparametric statistics; Support services for mobile computing

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS OF PATTERN RECOGNITION; LOCATION-DEPENDENT AND SENSITIVE MOBILE APPLICATIONS; NONPARAMETRIC STATISTICS; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH (RSS); SUPPORT SERVICES FOR MOBILE COMPUTING;

ACCESS CONTROL; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COST EFFECTIVENESS; INSTALLATION; POSITION CONTROL;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 34247603598     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2007.1017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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