Mobile device-based cellular network coverage analysis using crowd sourcing

EUROCON 2011 - International Conference on Computer as a Tool - Joint with Conftele 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Mankowitz, Jaymin D ^a   Paverd, Andréw J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL BOUNDARY; CELLULAR NETWORK; DATA SETS; DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS; LOCATION BASED; NETWORK COVERAGE; NETWORK MEASUREMENT; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM;

CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS; MOBILE DEVICES; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 79960624884     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EUROCON.2011.5929420     Document Type: Conference Paper

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