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Indoor Positioning with Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN)

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Location Based Services; Position Location; Radiolocation; WLAN Geolocation; WLAN Localization; WLAN Location Determination; WLAN Location Discovery; WLAN Location Estimation; WLAN Location Identification; WLAN Location Sensing

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WLAN positioning refers to the process of locating mobile network devices, such as laptops or personal digital assistants, using a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) infrastructure. Positioning is carried out by exploiting the dependency between the location of a mobile device (MD) and characteristics of signals transmitted between the MD and a set of WLAN access points (APs). These characteristics are generally Time of Arrival (ToA), Time Difference of Arrival (TDoA), Angle of Arrival (AoA), and Received Signal Strength (RSS). RSS is the feature of choice in WLAN positioning systems as it can be obtained directly from Network Interface Cards (NIC) that are available on most handheld computers. This allows the implementation of positioning...

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  1. Multimedia Laboratory, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    A. Kushki, K. N. Plataniotis & A. N. Venetsanopoulos

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  1. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Shashi Shekhar

  2. Management Science and Information Systems Department, Rutgers Business School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, USA

    Hui Xiong

  3. Department of Management Sciences, Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA

    Xun Zhou

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Kushki, A., Plataniotis, K.N., Venetsanopoulos, A.N. (2017). Indoor Positioning with Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN). In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H., Zhou, X. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17885-1_629

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