The performance of WiFi network for application in a navigation system for visually impaired people

7th Annual Wireless Telecommunications Symposium, WTS 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 243-249

  Alhajri, Khalid ^a   Al Salihi, Nawzad ^a   Garaj, Varya ^a   Balachandran, Wamadeva ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blind Navigation System; GPS; IEEE802.11; WiFi; WLAN

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; JITTER; ONLINE SEARCHING; STANDARDS; TELECOMMUNICATION; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; VISION AIDS;

BLIND NAVIGATION SYSTEM; GPS; IEEE802.11; WIFI; WLAN;

NAVIGATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 51249120762     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WTS.2008.4547571     Document Type: Conference Paper

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