Push the limit of WiFi based localization for smartphones

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 305-316

  Liu, Hongbo ^a   Gan, Yu ^a   Yang, Jie ^a   Sidhom, Simon ^a   Wang, Yan ^a   Chen, Yingying ^a   Ye, Fan ^b  

^a STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Peer assisted localization; Smartphone; WiFi fingerprint localization

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC RANGING; BATTERY LIFETIME; EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; HIGH DENSITY; INDOOR LOCALIZATION; LOCATION BASED; PEER ASSISTED LOCALIZATION; PUBLIC SPACE; REASONABLE ACCURACY; ROOT CAUSE;

ERRORS; MOBILE COMPUTING; NETWORK SECURITY; SMARTPHONES; TELEPHONE SETS;

WI-FI;

EID: 84866605999     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2348543.2348581     Document Type: Conference Paper

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