Fading compensation for improved indoor RF tracking based on redundant RSS readings

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6752 LNAI, Issue , 2011, Pages 384-395

  Fink, Andreas ^a   Beikirch, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diversity Combining; Indoor Tracking; ISM Radio; Multipath Fading; Received Signal Strength

Indexed keywords

DIVERSITY COMBINING; FREQUENCY DIVERSITY; HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENT; HIGH RELIABLE; HUMAN LIVES; INDOOR TRACKING; ISM RADIO; LOCATION ESTIMATION; MAINTENANCE STAFF; MOTION TESTS; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH; RF COMMUNICATION; TRACKING PERFORMANCE; TRACKING SOLUTIONS; ULTRASOUND SENSORS; LOCATION ESTIMATION TECHNIQUES;

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; LONGWALL MINING; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; MULTIPATH FADING;

FADING (RADIO);

EID: 79960093674     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21538-4_38     Document Type: Conference Paper

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