Empirical evaluation of the limits on localization using signal strength

2009 6th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks, SECON 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Chandrasekaran, Gayathri ^a   Ergin, Mesut Ali ^a   Yang, Jie ^b   Liu, Song ^a   Chen, Yingying ^b   Gruteser, Marco ^a   Martin, Richard P ^a  

^a The State University of New Jersey   (United States)

^b STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMODITY HARDWARE; DISTANCE FUNCTIONS; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; FREE SPACE; FUNDAMENTAL LIMITS; LATERATION; LOCALIZATION ACCURACY; LOCALIZATION ALGORITHM; LOCALIZATION ERRORS; LOCALIZATION PERFORMANCE; LOCALIZATION SYSTEM; LOWER BOUNDS; MATCHING ALGORITHM; MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATIONS; MULTI-PATH; SIGNAL STRENGTHS; UNBIASED ESTIMATOR; WIRELESS LOCALIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION; CONTROL THEORY; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSORS; TRACE ANALYSIS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

AD HOC NETWORKS;

EID: 70449555084     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SAHCN.2009.5168931     Document Type: Conference Paper

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