Vision: Cloud and crowd assistance for GPS urban canyons

MCS 2014 - Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing and Services, Co-located with MobiSys 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 23-27

  Tan, Zhiyong ^a   Chu, David ^b   Zhong, Lin ^c  

^a NativeX   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

GPS; Localization; Mobile computing; Urban canyon

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING; MOBILE COMPUTING; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CORE COMPONENTS; DIGITAL SURFACE MODELS; HIGH RESOLUTION; LOCALIZATION; MOBILE DEVICE USERS; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; SATELLITE VISIBILITY; URBAN CANYONS;

COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING;

EID: 84904352038     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2609908.2609950     Document Type: Conference Paper

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