Estimating locations and coverage areas of mobile network cells based on crowdsourced data

Proceedings of 2013 6th Joint IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference, WMNC 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Neidhardt, Eric ^a   Uzun, Abdulbaki ^a   Bareth, Ulrich ^a   Kupper, Axel ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEST ESTIMATES; COVERAGE AREA; GRID-BASED APPROACH; MOBILE NETWORK OPERATORS; NETWORK TOPOLOGY; OPEN-SOURCE INITIATIVES; POSITION ESTIMATION; STATE-OF-THE-ART APPROACH;

ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ESTIMATION; SEMANTICS;

BASE STATIONS;

EID: 84881434183     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WMNC.2013.6549010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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