Robust indoor positioning provided by real-time rssi values in unmodified WLAN networks

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 821-831

  Mazuelas, Santiago ^a   Bahillo, Alfonso ^a   Lorenzo, Ruben M ^b   Fernandez, Patricia ^a   Lago, Francisco A ^b   Garcia, Eduardo ^a   Blas, Juan ^b   Abril, Evaristo J ^a  

^a Parque Tecnologico de Boecillo   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Geolocation; IEEE 80211; Positioning; Received signal strength indicator (RSSI)

Indexed keywords

ACCESS POINTS; BEST FIT; DYNAMIC NATURE; GEOLOCATIONS; IEEE 80211; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; INDOOR LOCATIONS; MOBILE STATION; POSITIONING; POSITIONING METHODS; PROPAGATION ENVIRONMENT; PROPAGATION MODELS; REAL TIME; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH INDICATORS; ROBUST INDOOR POSITIONING; SIMULATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS; TRILATERATION; WLAN NETWORKS;

ESTIMATION;

RSS;

EID: 77952491808     PISSN: 19324553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTSP.2009.2029191     Document Type: Article

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