WLAN location determination via clustering and probability distributions

Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 143-150

  Youssef, Moustafa A ^a   Agrawala, Ashok ^a   Shankar, A Udaya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; LOCATION DETERMINATION; MOBILE CLIENT; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; SIGNAL STRENGTHS; STATE OF THE ART; USER LOCATION; WIRELESS CHANNEL;

COST REDUCTION; LOCATION; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 78649688335     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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