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One of the new frontiers in wireless networking research is location awareness. Knowledge of a user’s location enables a number of location-based services (LBS) to be delivered to that user. However, while this problem has been largely addressed for the outdoor environment, indoor positioning is an open area of research. Here, the problem of accurate indoor positioning is discussed, and the current state of the art in accurate position estimation techniques is reviewed.
Historical Background
Serious research in the field of positioning first began in the 1960s, when several US government agencies, including the Department of Defense (DoD), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the Department of Transportation (DOT) expressed interest in developing systems for position determination (Kaplan 1996). The result, known as the Global Positioning System (GPS), is the most...
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Kanaan, M., Alavi, B., Hatami, A., Pahlavan, K. (2017). Channel Modeling and Algorithms for Indoor Positioning. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H., Zhou, X. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17885-1_131
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