Yunhao Liu

Zheng Yang

Chenshu Wu

This book provides a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of wireless indoor localization for ubiquitous applications. The past decade has witnessed a flourishing of WiFi-based indoor localization, which has become one of the most popular localization solutions and has attracted considerable attention from both the academic and industrial communities. Specifically focusing on WiFi fingerprint based localization via crowdsourcing, the book follows a top-down approach and explores the three most important aspects of wireless indoor localization: deployment, maintenance, and service accuracy. After extensively reviewing the state-of-the-art literature, it highlights the latest advances in crowdsourcing-enabled WiFi localization. It elaborated the ideas, methods and systems for implementing the crowdsourcing approach for fingerprint-based localization. By tackling the problems such as: deployment costs of fingerprint database construction, maintenance overhead of fingerprint database updating, floor plan generation, and location errors, the book offers a valuable reference guide for technicians and practitioners in the field of location-based services. As the first of its kind, introducing readers to WiFi-based localization from a crowdsourcing perspective, it will greatly benefit and appeal to scientists and researchers in mobile and ubiquitous computing and related areas.

A Crowdsourcing Approach

Wireless Indoor Localization

Yingshu Li

Gopal Pandurangan

V. S. Anil Kumar

Gu Ming

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Annual International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications, WASA 2010, held in Beijing, China, in August 2010. The 19 revised full papers and 10 revised short papers presented together with 18 papers from 4 workshops were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topica sections on topology control and coverage, theoretical foundations, energy-aware algorithms and protocol design, wireless sensor networks and applications, applications and experimentation, scheduling and channel assignment, coding, information theory and security, security of wireless and ad-hoc networks, data management and network control in wireless networks, radar and sonar sensor networks, as well as compressive sensing for communications and networking.

5th International Conference, WASA 2010, Beijing, China, August 15-17, 2010. Proceedings

Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications

This book reflects up-to-date research, fundamental theories, and key techniques of of wireless localization technology and error-controlling techniques. It also presents and discusses the issue of localizability, as well as privacy issues associated with LBS. This book encompasses the significant and quickly growing area of wireless localization technology. It presents comprehensive and up-to-date research in both fundamental theories and key techniques of network localization. In addition to localization approaches, it also is the first book to address the issue of localizability. The privacy issue of LBS technology is also discussed.

Location-awareness Technology for Wireless Networks

Location, Localization, and Localizability

Yunhao Liu

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