Analysis of the optimal strategy for wlan location determination systems

International Journal of Modelling and Simulation

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 53-59

  Youssef, M A ^a,b   Agrawala, A ^b  

^a ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b Institute of Advanced Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Optimal WLAN positioning strategy; WLAN location determination; WLAN simulation

Indexed keywords

ACCESS CONTROL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; POSITION CONTROL; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

ACCESS POINTS; LOCATION DETERMINATION ALGORITHMS; LOCATION DETERMINATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 34249293689     PISSN: 02286203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02286203.2007.11442399     Document Type: Article

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