An empirical study of antenna characteristics toward RF-based localization for IEEE 802.15.4 sensor nodes

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4373 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 309-324

  Yang, Sungwon ^a   Cha, Hojung ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY BANDS; INFORMATION SERVICES; PROBLEM SOLVING; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

ANTENNA DESIGNS; RADIO FREQUENCY (RF); RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH (RSS); SENSOR NODES;

ANTENNAS;

EID: 38049145961     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69830-2_20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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