Providing Group Tour Guide by RFIDs and Wireless Sensor Networks

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3059-3067

  Chen, Po Yu ^a   Chen, Wen Tsuen ^a   Tseng, Yu Chee ^b   Huang, Chi Fu ^c  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Navigation; Pervasive computing; RFID; Tour guiding; Wireless sensor network

Indexed keywords

FEASIBLE SOLUTION; LOW COSTS; MOVING PATH; NEW APPLICATIONS; OFF-THE-SHELF COMPONENTS; PERVASIVE COMPUTING; PROTOTYPING; RFID; SENSING FIELDS; TOUR GUIDE; TOUR GUIDING; TRAFFIC LOADS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; NAVIGATION; ROUTING PROTOCOLS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSOR NODES; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 67651159087     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2009.080596     Document Type: Article

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