A statistical study on the impact of wireless signals' behavior on location estimation accuracy in 802.11 fingerprinting systems

IPDPS 2009 - Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Farivar, Reza ^a   Wiczer, David ^a   Gutierrez, Alejandro ^a   Campbell, Roy H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Localization; Location based services; Optimal placement; Wireless access points

Indexed keywords

CELL PHONE; IN-BUILDINGS; LOCATION ESTIMATION; LOCATION-BASED SERVICES; MULTIPLE ACCESS POINTS; NETWORK COVERAGE; OPTIMAL COVERAGE; OPTIMAL LOCATIONS; OPTIMAL PLACEMENTS; STATISTICAL STUDY; WIRELESS ACCESS POINTS; WIRELESS SIGNALS;

BUILDINGS; CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; WI-FI;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 70449868837     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2009.5161189     Document Type: Conference Paper

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