Tracking mobile targets indoors using WLAN and time of arrival

Computer Communications

Volumn 32, Issue 13-14, 2009, Pages 1552-1558

  Ciurana, Marc ^a   Barcelo Arroyo, Francisco ^a   Cugno, Sebastiano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Indoors positioning; Time of arrival; Tracking; Wireless networks; WLAN

Indexed keywords

ACCESS POINTS; INDOORS POSITIONING; MOBILE TARGETS; MOBILE TERMINAL; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; ON TIME; TIME OF ARRIVAL; TRACKING; TRACKING ALGORITHM; WLAN; WLAN TERMINALS;

ALGORITHMS;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 67650632769     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2009.05.013     Document Type: Article

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