Directional beaconing: A robust WiFi positioning method using Angle-of-Emission information

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5561 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 103-119

  Kawauchi, Kensaku ^a   Miyaki, Takashi ^b   Rekimoto, Jun ^b  

^a Graduate School of Interdiciplinary in Information Studies

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angle of arrival; Angular information; Directional antenna; Directional beacon; Location estimation; WiFi

Indexed keywords

ANGLE OF ARRIVAL; ANGULAR INFORMATION; DIRECTIONAL ANTENNA; DIRECTIONAL BEACON; LOCATION ESTIMATION;

ANTENNAS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); MOBILE DEVICES; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; SENSORS;

WI-FI;

EID: 68149129662     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-01721-6_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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