Outdoor location detection based on signal propagation models

Author

Cavalieri, Salvatore

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Telecommun. Eng., Catania Univ.

Volume

1

fYear

2005

fDate

19-22 Sept. 2005

Lastpage

1000

Abstract

Literature presents many approaches for location detection of a mobile user using IEEE 802.11b wireless communication standard; generally localisation is limited to indoor scenarios, where GPS cannot be used, and is based on pattern matching algorithm. The paper aims to reach two different goals. The first is the proposal of the use of IEEE 802.11b standard for outdoor location detection; this choice is mainly justified by the large availability of communication cards at very low costs and by the limits of GPS, which may introduce not negligible errors in location detection. The second aim of the paper is the proposal of a new approach for outdoor wireless localisation, aimed to reduce the complexity featuring by the well-known localisation approaches based on pattern matching algorithm

Keywords

IEEE standards; mobile radio; pattern matching; telecommunication standards; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11b wireless communication standard; mobile user; outdoor location detection; outdoor wireless localisation; pattern matching algorithm; signal propagation model; Airports; Communication standards; Costs; Global Positioning System; Mobile computing; Pattern matching; Proposals; Signal detection; Wireless LAN; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 2005. ETFA 2005. 10th IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Catania

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9401-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ETFA.2005.1612632

Filename

1612632