Sensing WiFi packets in the air: Practicality and implications in urban mobility monitoring

UbiComp 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 189-200

  Chon, Yohan ^a   Kim, Suyeon ^a   Lee, Seungwoo ^a   Kim, Dongwon ^a   Kim, Yungeun ^a   Cha, Hojung ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Crowdsensing; Smartphone sensing; WiFi monitor mode

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL ENCODING; SMARTPHONES; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

CROWDSENSING; EFFECTIVE MECHANISMS; SENSING SYSTEMS; SMARTPHONE SENSING; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; SYSTEMATIC STUDY; URBAN LIFE MONITORING; URBAN MOBILITY;

AIR MOBILITY;

EID: 84908568796     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2632048.2636066     Document Type: Conference Paper

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