Space partitioning strategies for indoor WLAN positioning with cascade-connected ANN structures

International Journal of Neural Systems

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-15

  Borenović, Miloš ^a,b   Nešković, Aleksandar ^a   Budimir, Djuradj ^b  

^a School of Electrical Engineering   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; cascade connected; location; positioning; radio; space partitioning; WLAN

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CASCADE-CONNECTED; POSITIONING; SPACE PARTITIONING; WLAN;

OPTIMIZATION; PARTITIONS (BUILDING); WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; STATISTICS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

ALGORITHMS; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 78751483454     PISSN: 01290657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0129065711002614     Document Type: Conference Paper

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