Enhancing the accuracy of WLAN-based location determination systems using predicted orientation information

Information Sciences

Volumn 178, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1049-1068

  Liao, I En ^a   Kao, Kuo Fong ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b HSIUPING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Location aware; Location determination; Orientation; Received signal strength; Wireless LAN

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; USER INTERFACES; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

CONTEXT AWARE SERVICES; LOCATION AWARE; LOCATION DETERMINATION; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH;

TRACKING (POSITION);

EID: 36549043496     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2007.09.025     Document Type: Article

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