RASS: A real-time, accurate, and scalable system for tracking transceiver-free objects

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 996-1008

  Zhang, Dian ^a   Liu, Yunhuai ^b   Guo, Xiaonan ^c   Ni, Lionel M ^c,d  

^a SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF FORENSIC SCIENCE   (China)

^c HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^d SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Applications; localization; pervasive computing; support vector regression; transceiver free; wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION DEVICE; LOCALIZATION; MONI-TORING NODES; REAL-TIME TRACKING SYSTEMS; SUPPORT VECTOR REGRESSION (SVR); TRACKING ACCURACY; TRACKING TECHNOLOGY; TRANSCEIVER-FREE;

APPLICATIONS; SENSOR NODES; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

TRANSCEIVERS;

EID: 84875713840     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2012.134     Document Type: Article

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