Location Determination within Wireless Networks

ISBN-13: 9783639127638 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 136 str.

Yiming Ji

Opis

Many location determination systems have recentlybeen proposed, and most of them are based on one ormore of the following four methods: lateration,angulation, fingerprinting, and dead-reckoning.However, existing systems require either dedicatedhardware support or extensive human interaction. Thisbook, therefore, provides a comprehensive study onthe design, analysis, and evaluation of both indoorand outdoor localization systems. The book introducesa new dynamic indoor localization tool calledARIADNE, it also presents two multidimensionalscaling based algorithms for outdoor sensor networks.Thus this research transforms indoor/outdoorlocalization systems from high cost, labor intensive,imprecise, and static technologies to affordable,automated, accurate, and dynamic systems. Researchresults are ready to be integrated with a wide rangeof applications without requiring additionalinfrastructure, other wireless technologies or manualoperations. Comparison study should helpprofessionals better understand current status of theresearch in wireless location determination, andtheoretical analysis would also serve as valuablestandards for other research in the community.

O autorze

Yiming Ji received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 2006
from Auburn University. He is presently an Assistant Professor at
the University of South Carolina Beaufort. His research is mainly
in wireless networks, embedded systems, modeling and simulation,
digital image/video processing and analysis, and scientific
computation.