Nuzzer: A large-scale device-free passive localization system for wireless environments

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1321-1334

  Seifeldin, Moustafa ^a   Saeed, Ahmed ^b   Kosba, Ahmed E ^c   El Keyi, Amr ^d   Youssef, Moustafa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Alexandria University   (Egypt)

^c Alexandria University The Faculty Of Engineering   (Egypt)

^d NILE UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Device free localization; multiple entities detection; passive radio map

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LOCALIZATIONS; CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT; DEVICE-FREE LOCALIZATIONS; DEVICE-FREE PASSIVE LOCALIZATIONS; LOCALIZATION SYSTEM; PROBABILISTIC TECHNIQUE; RADIO MAPS; WIRELESS ENVIRONMENT;

MOBILE DEVICES; OFFICE BUILDINGS;

PASSIVE NETWORKS;

EID: 84878159171     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2012.106     Document Type: Article

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