Human mobility enhances global positioning accuracy for mobile phone localization

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 131-141

  Wu, Chenshu ^a   Yang, Zheng ^a   Xu, Yu ^b   Zhao, Yiyang ^a   Liu, Yunhao ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WENZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

GPS; human mobility; mobile phone localization

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR TELEPHONES; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; LOCATION BASED SERVICES; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE PHONES; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; TELEPHONE SETS;

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTS; EVALUATION RESULTS; GLOBAL POSITIONING; HUMAN MOBILITY; LOCAL COORDINATE; MOBILE PHONE LOCALIZATIONS; POSITIONING ERROR; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 84919484246     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2014.2308225     Document Type: Article

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