A novel indoor location sensing mechanism for IEEE 802.11b/g wireless LAN

4th Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication 2007, WPNC'07 - Workshop Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 9-15

  Ali, Shahid ^a   Nobles, Philip ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Indoor propagation; Location estimation; Signal strength; Wireless LAN

Indexed keywords

MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; POSITION MEASUREMENT; RECEPTION QUALITY; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

INDOOR PROPAGATION; LOCATION ACCURACY; LOCATION ESTIMATION; SIGNAL STRENGTH;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 36348991468     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/wpnc.2007.353605     Document Type: Conference Paper

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