Map-based location and tracking in multipath outdoor mobile networks

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 814-824

  Anisetti, Marco ^a   Ardagna, Claudio A ^a   Bellandi, Valerio ^a   Damiani, Ernesto ^a   Reale, Salvatore ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b GREENGEGNERIAIT ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

3G mobile communication networks; Geolocation; GSM; Kalman filters; received signal strength indication

Indexed keywords

3G MOBILE COMMUNICATION; CORRELATION TECHNIQUES; GEOLOCATION ALGORITHM; GEOLOCATIONS; GSM; HIGH QUALITY; MOBILE NETWORKS; MOBILE TECHNOLOGY; MOBILITY PREDICTIONS; MULTI-PATH; POSITIONING SYSTEM; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH INDICATION; SECURITY THREATS; SERVICE LEVELS; TECHNICAL ENHANCEMENTS; TRACKING TECHNIQUES; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS;

GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; KALMAN FILTERS; MOBILE ANTENNAS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 79952988817     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2011.011811.100025     Document Type: Article

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