Hybrid indoor and outdoor location services for new generation mobile terminals

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 271-285

  Ficco, Massimo ^a   Palmieri, Francesco ^a   Castiglione, Aniello ^b  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hybrid positioning; Location based services; Mobile devices; RSS fingerprinting

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER TERMINALS; INFORMATION SERVICES; LOCATION; MOBILE COMPUTING; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

DEGREE OF PRECISION; FINGERPRINTING TECHNIQUES; HYBRID POSITIONING; INDOOR AND OUTDOOR LOCATIONS; OUTDOOR LOCALIZATIONS; POSITIONING TECHNOLOGIES; SATISFACTORY DEGREE; SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT;

LOCATION BASED SERVICES;

EID: 84897617754     PISSN: 16174909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00779-013-0644-4     Document Type: Article

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