Directed by directionality: Benefiting from the gain pattern of active RFID badges

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 865-877

  Zhao, Yang ^a   Patwari, Neal ^a   Agrawal, Piyush ^a   Rabbat, Michael ^b  

^a University of Utah   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

localization; radio propagation; tracking; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE RFID; ANCHOR NODES; ANTENNA GAIN PATTERNS; FIRST-ORDER; GAIN PATTERNS; HUMAN BODIES; LOCALIZATION; LOCALIZATION SYSTEM; LOCATION-AWARE COMPUTING; LOWER BOUNDS; MEAN SQUARED ERROR; MODEL PARAMETERS; POSITION ESTIMATES; POSITION ESTIMATION; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH; SECURITY APPLICATION; TRACKING ACCURACY; TRACKING FILTER; TRACKING SYSTEM; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK (WSN);

ESTIMATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; RADIO TRANSMISSION; RADIO WAVES; RSS; SURFACE DISCHARGES; TARGET TRACKING; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID);

EID: 84859169398     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2011.89     Document Type: Article

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