Accurate and efficient object tracking based on passive RFID

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 2188-2200

  Yang, Lei ^a   Cao, Jiannong ^a   Zhu, Weiping ^b   Tang, Shaojie ^c  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Computation offloading; Particle filter; RFID tracking

Indexed keywords

COSTS; INDOOR POSITIONING SYSTEMS; LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT; MOBILE PHONES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; TRACKING (POSITION);

COMPUTATION OFFLOADING; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; LIGHT-RAIL VEHICLES; PARTICLE FILTER; WEIGHTED CENTROID LOCALIZATIONS (WCL); WHEELCHAIR NAVIGATION;

RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID);

EID: 84952311701     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2014.2381232     Document Type: Article

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