Analysis of RSS-based location estimation techniques in fading environments

2011 International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation, IPIN 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Fink, Andreas ^a   Beikirch, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

2.4 GHz ISM Radio; Centroid Location Estimation; Indoor Localization; Linear Least Squared Error Estimator; Received Signal Strength Readings; Signal Fading

Indexed keywords

CENTROID LOCATION ESTIMATION; INDOOR LOCALIZATION; LEAST SQUARED ERROR; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH; SIGNAL FADING;

ALGORITHMS; FADING (RADIO); LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MULTIPATH FADING; RADIO NAVIGATION; RSS; SPACE OPTICS;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 82955165654     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPIN.2011.6071943     Document Type: Conference Paper

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