A location-based management system for enterprise wireless LANs

4th Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 115-130

  Chandra, Ranveer ^a   Padhye, Jitendra ^a   Wolman, Alec ^a   Zill, Brian ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCATION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

LOCATION BASED; LOCATION ESTIMATION; LOCATION SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT TASKS; MANAGEMENT TOOL; PHYSICAL LOCATIONS; SELF-CONFIGURING;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 36949006897     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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