Decision tree approach to estimate user location in WLAN based on location fingerprinting

National Radio Science Conference, NRSC, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Badawy, Osama Mohamed ^a   Hasan, Moustafa Ahmed Bani ^a  

^a Egypt Mansoura University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; ERRORS; NEURAL NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TRACKING (POSITION); USER INTERFACES;

ANGLE OF ARRIVAL (AOA); INDOOR POSITIONING TECHNIQUES; LOCATION FINGERPRINTING; NEAREST NEIGHBOR APPROACH; NON-LINE-OF-SIGHT ERROR; RADIO SIGNAL STRENGTH; TIME DIFFERENCE OF ARRIVAL (TDOA); TIME OF ARRIVAL (TOA);

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 34648836762     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NRSC.2007.371395     Document Type: Conference Paper

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