Autonomous smartphone-based WiFi positioning system by using access points localization and crowdsourcing

Pervasive and Mobile Computing

Volumn 18, Issue , 2015, Pages 118-136

  Zhuang, Y ^a   Syed, Z ^b   Georgy, J ^b   El Sheimy, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Invensense Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Access point localization; Crowdsourcing; Inertial navigation; Smartphone; WiFi positioning

Indexed keywords

AIR NAVIGATION; CROWDSOURCING; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION; SMARTPHONES;

ACCESS POINTS; DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; INERTIAL NAVIGATIONS; PROPAGATION PARAMETERS; WI-FI ACCESS POINTS; WI-FI POSITIONING; WI-FI POSITIONING SYSTEM;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 84926422023     PISSN: 15741192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmcj.2015.02.001     Document Type: Article

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