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Whereas there is a lot of work related to finding the location of users in WLAN and ad-hoc networks, guiding users in these networks remains mostly an unexplored area of research. In this paper we present the concept of node-to-node guidance and introduce a method that can be used to implement it. This method relies on the computation of a local gradient in the neighborhood of the moving node. We named this protocol GUIDE-gradient, which is a GPS-free and infrastructure-free node-to-node guiding system. In this paper we also discuss how the guiding algorithm can be generalized to node-to-node guidance in multihop ad-hoc networks.
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Gonzalez, M.A., Gomez, J., Lopez-Guerrero, M. et al. GUIDE-gradient: A Guiding Algorithm for Mobile Nodes in WLAN and Ad-hoc Networks. Wireless Pers Commun 57, 629–653 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-009-9865-2
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