Unsupervised locating of WiFi access points using smartphones

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1341-1353

  Koo, Jahyoung ^a   Cha, Hojung ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Autonomous and unsupervised learning; multidimensional scaling (MDS); WiFi access point map; WiFi positioning system

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE POSITION; ACCESS POINTS; INDOOR LOCATIONS; INTERFERENCE CHARACTERISTICS; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SCALING; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING TECHNIQUES; RADIO MAPS; RELATIVE POSITIONS; RF FINGERPRINTS; WI FI NETWORKS; WI-FI POSITIONING SYSTEM;

SMARTPHONES;

WI-FI;

EID: 84871752250     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2012.2186800     Document Type: Article

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