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In this article, we investigate experimentally the suitability of several Bayesian filtering techniques for the problem of tracking a moving device by a set of wireless sensor nodes in indoor environments. In ...
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:21
Published on: 19 January 2012
Research
Received signal strength (RSS) can be used in sensor networks as a ranging measurement for positioning and localization applications. This contribution studies the realistic situation where neither the emitted...
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:16
Published on: 16 January 2012
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In this paper, we propose two time of arrival estimators for ultra wideband signals based on the phase difference between the discrete Fourier transforms (DFT) of the transmitted and received signals. The firs...
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:3
Published on: 9 January 2012
Editorial
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011 2011:197
Published on: 6 December 2011
Research
A joint communication and positioning system based on maximum-likelihood channel parameter estimation is proposed. The parameters of the physical channel, needed for positioning, and the channel coefficients o...
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011 2011:185
Published on: 23 November 2011
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In this semi-tutorial paper, the positioning problem is formulated as a convex feasibility problem (CFP). To solve the CFP for non-cooperative networks, we consider the well-known projection onto convex sets (...
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011 2011:161
Published on: 10 November 2011
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We investigate the feasibility of using correlation-based methods for estimating the spatial location of distributed receiving nodes in an indoor environment. Our algorithms do not assume any knowledge regardi...
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011 2011:135
Published on: 21 October 2011
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The ability of a sensor node to determine its position is a fundamental requirement for many applications in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In this article, we address a scenario where a subset of sensors, c...
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011 2011:121
Published on: 6 October 2011
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In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), location information plays an important role in many fundamental services which includes geographic routing, target tracking, location-based coverage, topology control, and ...
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011 2011:99
Published on: 17 September 2011
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This paper addresses the decentralized localization of an acoustic source in a (wireless) sensor network based on the underlying partial differential equation (PDE). The PDE is transformed into a distributed s...
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011 2011:94
Published on: 12 September 2011
Research
A new approach to indoor localization is presented, based upon the use of Received Signal Strength (RSS) fingerprints containing data from very large numbers of cellular base stations--up to the entire GSM ban...
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011 2011:81
Published on: 31 August 2011
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This article provides the graphical properties which can ensure unique localizability in cooperative networks with hybrid distance and bearing (angle of arrival) measurements. Furthermore, within the networks ...
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011 2011:72
Published on: 22 August 2011
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Foot-mounted indoor positioning systems work remarkably well when using additionally the knowledge of floor-plans in the localization algorithm. Walls and other structures naturally restrict the motion of pede...
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011 2011:60
Published on: 15 August 2011
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IEEE 802.15.4a networks can provide the geographic routing solution with high location accuracy for the indoor environments. However, in the non-line-of-sight (NLOS) environments, the IEEE 802.15.4a networks m...
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011 2011:52
Published on: 3 August 2011
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Received signal strength indication (RSSI)-based localization is emerging in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Localization algorithms need to include the physical and hardware limitations of RSSI measurements ...
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011 2011:38
Published on: 12 July 2011
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Determination of Cramer-Rao lower bound (CRLB) as an optimality criterion for the problem of localization in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is a very important issue. Currently, CRLBs have been derived for li...
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011 2011:16
Published on: 16 June 2011
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While wireless local area network-based indoor localization is attractive, the problems concerning how to capture the signal-propagating character in the complex dynamic environment and how to accommodate the ...
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011 2011:17
Published on: 16 June 2011
