Comparison of WiFi positioning on two mobile devices

Journal of Location Based Services

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 35-50

  Zandbergen, Paul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

mobile devices; positional accuracy; WiFi positioning

Indexed keywords

ACCESS POINTS; AGGREGATE PERFORMANCE; ERROR DISTRIBUTIONS; FIELD WORKS; GPS SIGNALS; LOCATION INFORMATION; LOCATION-BASED SERVICES; MEDIAN VALUE; POSITIONAL ACCURACY; REPLICABILITY; SKY-HOOK; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; STUDY AREAS; TIME TO FIRST FIXES; WI-FI POSITIONING SYSTEM;

AGGREGATES; LAPTOP COMPUTERS; MOBILE DEVICES; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; SMARTPHONES; WI-FI;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 84859612941     PISSN: 17489725     EISSN: 17489733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17489725.2011.630038     Document Type: Article

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