Pre-processing of fingerprints to improve the positioning accuracy of 802.11-based positioning systems

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 73-78

  Lemelson, Hendrik ^a   King, Thomas ^a   Effelsberg, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Context aware applications; Fingerprinting; Ieee 802.11; Location based services; Positioning systems

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT-AWARE APPLICATIONS; FINGERPRINTING; IEEE 802.11; LOCATION-BASED SERVICES; POSITIONING SYSTEMS;

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MOBILE COMPUTING; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS; STANDARDS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 60349126016     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1410012.1410029     Document Type: Conference Paper

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