A model for WLAN signal attenuation of the human body

UbiComp 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 499-508

  Fet, Ngewi ^a   Handte, Marcus ^a   Marrón, Pedro José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Indoor localization; Signal attenuation; Signal modeling

Indexed keywords

HUMAN BODIES; INDOOR LOCALIZATION; MULTIPLE ORIENTATIONS; PERSON-INDEPENDENT; RADIO MAPS; SIGNAL ATTENUATION; SIGNAL MODELING; SIGNAL STRENGTHS;

SIGNAL PROCESSING; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

MOBILE COMPUTING;

EID: 84885211483     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2493432.2493459     Document Type: Conference Paper

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