Accuracy performance analysis between war driving and war walking in metropolitan Wi-Fi localization

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1551-1562

  Tsui, Arvin Wen Tsui ^a,b   Lin, Wei Cheng ^a   Chen, Wei Ju ^a   Huang, Polly ^a   Chu, Hao Hua ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Metropolitan scale Wi Fi localization; radio maps; war driving.

Indexed keywords

ACCESS POINTS; COMPARISON ANALYSIS; LOCALIZATION SYSTEM; LOCATION ESTIMATION; METROPOLITAN-SCALE WI-FI LOCALIZATION; OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENT; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; POSITIONAL ACCURACY; RADIO MAPS; SIGNAL SAMPLES; WAR DRIVING.; WI-FI SIGNALS;

LOCATION;

WI-FI;

EID: 77956962462     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2010.121     Document Type: Article

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