Cellular geolocation employing hybrid of relative signal strength and propagation delay

IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages 2246-2251

  Liu, Bo Chieh ^a   Lin, Ken Huang ^a  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR GEOLOCATION; PROPAGATION DELAY; WIRELESS SERVICES;

ALGORITHMS; BASE STATIONS; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; TRANSCEIVERS;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 34250333075     PISSN: 15253511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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