The Horus location determination system

Wireless Networks

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 357-374

  Youssef, Moustafa ^a   Agrawala, Ashok ^b  

^a University of Maryland ^*  (United States)

^b ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Continuous space estimator; Correlation handling; Discrete space estimator; Location clustering; Location determination; Performance evaluation of location determination systems; Small scale compensation; WLAN location determination

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CORRELATION DETECTORS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

CONTINUOUS-SPACE ESTIMATORS; CORRELATION HANDLING; DISCRETE-SPACE ESTIMATORS; LOCATION CLUSTERING; LOCATION DETERMINATION; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF LOCATION DETERMINATION SYSTEMS; SMALL-SCALE COMPENSATION; WLAN LOCATION DETERMINATION;

RADAR TRACKING;

EID: 43949095526     PISSN: 10220038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11276-006-0725-7     Document Type: Article

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