Molé: A scalable, user-generated WiFi positioning engine

Journal of Location Based Services

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 55-80

  Ledlie, Jonathan ^a   Park, Jun geun ^b   Curtis, Dorothy ^b   Cavalcante, André ^c   Camara, Leonardo ^c   Costa, Afonso ^c   Vieira, Robson ^c  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Nokia Technology Institute (INdT)   (Brazil)

Author keywords

crowd sourcing; localisation; WiFi positioning

Indexed keywords

CROWD-SOURCING; DESIGN SPACES; DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; LOCALISATION; MOTION DETECTORS; POSITIONING ALGORITHMS; SHOW THROUGH; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ALGORITHMS; LOCATION BASED SERVICES;

WI-FI;

EID: 84866320013     PISSN: 17489725     EISSN: 17489733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17489725.2012.692617     Document Type: Article

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