A novel method for metropolitan-scale Wi-Fi localization based on public telephone booths

Record - IEEE PLANS, Position Location and Navigation Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 357-364

  Tian, Hui ^a,b   Xia, Linyuan ^a,c   Mok, Esmond ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Localization algorithm; Path loss model; RSSI range model; Telephone booth based; Wi Fi

Indexed keywords

CELL IDENTIFICATION; CELL-ID; COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS; COST-TRACKING SYSTEM; EFFECTIVE RANGE; GEOLOCATIONS; GLOBAL INFORMATIONS; GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS; HARDWARE COST; HONG-KONG; HYBRID ALGORITHMS; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT; LOCALIZATION ALGORITHM; LOCATION-BASED SERVICES; MAC ADDRESS; MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL; NOVEL METHODS; OUTDOOR POSITIONING; PATH LOSS MODEL; PATH LOSS MODELS; PEDESTRIAN NAVIGATION; POSITIONING ACCURACY; POSITIONING TECHNOLOGIES; PRECISE MEASUREMENTS; PUBLIC TELEPHONE; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH INDICATORS; RSSI-RANGE MODEL; SERVICE SET IDENTIFIERS; SKY-HOOK; TIME TO FIRST FIXES; TYPICAL URBAN; WARDRIVING; WEAK SIGNALS;

ACCESS CONTROL; ALGORITHMS; COSTS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE DEVICES; NAVIGATION; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS; TRIANGULATION; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT; WI-FI;

TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

EID: 77955032485     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PLANS.2010.5507303     Document Type: Conference Paper

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