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White Papers
SeTraStream: Semantic-Aware Trajectory Construction Over Streaming Movement Data
May 2011
With the growth of location-based tracking technology like GPS, RFID and GSM networks, an enormous amount of trajectory data are generated from various real life applications, including traffic...
Provided by EPFL
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White Papers
GeoSEMA: A Modeling Platform, Emerging "GeoSpatial-Based Evolutionary and Mobile Agents"
Jun 2009
Spatial and mobile computing evolves. This paper describes a smart modeling platform called "GeoSEMA". This approach tends to model multidimensional GeoSpatial Evolutionary and Mobile Agents....
Provided by Lebanese University
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White Papers
Tracking of Mobile Devices Through Bluetooth Contacts
Oct 2010
The authors investigate if it is possible to reconstruct a mobile phone's mobility using its Bluetooth contacts with other mobile devices, some of which are equipped with GPS receivers. The data...
Provided by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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White Papers
HTPCP: GNSS-R Multi-Channel Cross-Correlation Waveforms Post-Processing Solution for GOLD-RTR Instrument
Sep 2010
Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry (GNSS-R) remote sensing is a new remote sensing technique of satellite navigation application. Essentially, it entails a method of remote sensing...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Whitepapers
Extended Data Life Management
Jun 2011
As increasing amounts of data and content are getting stored over longer periods of time, how do you know the data will be available when needed? Are you confident that data that has sat untouched...
Provided by Quantum
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Webcasts
Guardly
Jan 2011
Guardly is the first mobile personal safety service that gives people the ability to alert family, friends and local authorities about an emergency in a single tap. Guardly uniquely allows one's...
Provided by DEMO
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White Papers
Location Updating Strategies in Moving Object Databases
Apr 2009
Recent advances in wireless, communication systems have led to important new applications of Moving Object Databases (MOD). Typical application examples of Moving Object Databases (MOD) might...
Provided by Minufiya University
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White Papers
A Quality of Service Strategy to Select Coding Schemes in General Packet Radio Service System
Jun 2009
The internet is used for wide variety of applications in wired, fixed wireless and mobile wireless environment. The requirements of one application / environment will vary from another application...
Provided by Hannam university
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White Papers
Extension of GPS Broadcast Ephemeris to Determine Satellite Velocity and Acceleration
Apr 2009
This paper presents an expansion of the algorithm provided in the GPS ICD to include the precise real-time computation in ECEF coordinate of the velocity and acceleration components of the...
Provided by University of Leeds
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White Papers
A Novel Distributed Sensor Positioning System Using the Dual of Target Tracking
Feb 2008
As one of the fundamental issues in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), the sensor localization problem has recently received extensive attention. In this paper, the authors investigate this problem...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Whitepapers
IBM Delivers Extraordinary Efficiencies via Primary Storage compression
Jul 2011
Find out the difference between "controlling" data and "managing" data, and why enterprises are more focused on the latter. This paper discusses IBM Real-time Compression, a technology that...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Queuing Processes in GPS and PGPS With LRD Traffic Inputs
Jan 2011
Long Range Dependent (LRD) traffic whose single server queue process is Weibull Bounded (WB) is first analyzed. Two upper bounds on the individual session's queue length of LRD traffic under the...
Provided by University of New York at Buffalo
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White Papers
A Route Identification Algorithm for Assisted Living Applications Fusing WLAN, GPS and Image Matching Data
Feb 2010
This paper addresses the automatic identification of often traversed routes for assisted living applications using WLAN technology in addition to other modalities. This problem is complicated by a...
Provided by Dublin City University
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White Papers
Fuzzy Logic for Cross-Layer Optimization in Cognitive Radio Networks
Jan 2011
The search for the ultimate architecture for cross-layer optimization in cognitive radio networks is characterized by challenges such as modularity, interpretability, imprecision, scalability, and...
Provided by University of Padova
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Whitepapers
The Design of a Voice Navigation System for the Blind in Negative Feelings Environment
Sep 2009
The authors have developed a voice navigation system called VONAVS for blind person. The main point of the guidance support method for visually impaired person and blind person is show the...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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White Papers
Location Aided Hybrid Routing Algorithm for MANET
Feb 2011
In this paper, the authors propose a new hybrid routing protocol for MANET called Location Aided Hybrid Routing Protocol for MANET (LAHRP). The proposed routing algorithm not only aims to optimize...
Provided by Mansoura University
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Whitepapers
To Reveal the Performance Secrets of the Newest NN Searching Algorithm
Jan 2008
Nearest Neighbor (NN) search has been widely used in spatial databases and multimedia databases. Incremental NN (INN) search algorithm is regarded as the optimal NN search because of the minimum...
Provided by Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
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White Papers
Effects of Anchor Placement on Mean-CRB for Localization
Jun 2011
In this paper the authors discuss the lower bound i.e. the Cramer-Rao-Bound (CRB) on the accuracy of localization of nodes in a wireless network. The authors investigate the effects of anchor (or...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Radio Communication Model for Mobile Positioning Devices
Nov 2010
Location systems are becoming increasingly sought today to ensure the location of distant objects, to facilitate the management of personnel and their products, increase the productivity, etc....
Provided by University of Sherbrooke
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White Papers
Cooperative Transit Tracking Using Smart-Phones
Nov 2010
Real-time transit tracking is gaining popularity as a means for transit agencies to improve the rider experience. However, many transit agencies lack either the funding or initiative to provide...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
A Review of Localization Algorithms for Distributed Wireless Sensor Networks in Manufacturing
Jul 2009
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) typically consist of a large number of densely populated sensor nodes. Due to important advances in integrated circuits and radio technologies, the use of...
Provided by Politecnico di Torino
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White Papers
A Comparison of Two Distributed Large-Volume Measurement Systems: The Mobile Spatial Co-Ordinate Measuring System and the Indoor Global Positioning System
May 2009
Advances in the area of industrial metrology have generated new technologies that are capable of measuring components with complex geometry and large dimensions. However, no standard or...
Provided by Institution of Mechanical Engineers
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White Papers
Experimental Comparison of Dynamic Tracking Performance of iGPS and Laser Tracker
Jan 2011
External metrology systems are increasingly being integrated with traditional industrial articulated robots, especially in the aerospace industries, to improve their absolute accuracy for...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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White Papers
Sources of Variability in the Set-Up of an Indoor GPS
Jun 2010
An increasing demand for an extended flexibility to model types and production volumes in the manufacture of large-size assemblies has generated a growing interest in the reduction of jigs and...
Provided by University of Bath
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White Papers
Indoor GPS: System Functionality and Initial Performance Evaluation
Jun 2010
Indoor GPS (IGPS) is a newly developed laser based measuring system for large scale metrology. The relative portability, reconfigurability and ease of installation make the IGPS suitable for many...
Provided by Inderscience Enterprises
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White Papers
Graph Indexing of Road Networks for Shortest Path Queries With Label Restrictions
Jan 2011
The current widespread use of location-based services and GPS technologies has revived interest in very fast and scalable shortest path queries. The authors introduce a new shortest path query...
Provided by VLDB Endowment
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White Papers
A High Performance Scalable QoS Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Mar 2011
A Mobile Ad hoc NETwork (MANET) consists of a set of mobile hosts capable that form a temporary network on the fly without using any fixed infrastructure. The nodes operate both as hosts and...
Provided by Islamic Azad University
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Whitepapers
Improving Anchor Position Accuracy for 3-D Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks
Apr 2008
Accuracy of ordinary sensor node localization in wireless sensor networks mainly depends on the signal parameter such as time-of-arrival and signal strength estimation errors and the accuracy of...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Performance Analysis of Dropped Packets for Location Aided Routing Protocol Using Artificial Intelligence
Jun 2012
Location Aided Routing protocol (LAR) is an on demand protocol in MANET which uses GPS in mobile nodes to find the location of node. It calculates routing when it is needed. LAR protocol has two...
Provided by IOSR Journal of Engineering
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Whitepapers
Forward-Link Throughput Optimization for Wireless Cellular Packet Data Networks
Oct 2011
An attempt has been made in this paper to access the control layer of the General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) network Base Station (BS), using throughput optimization. The authors focus on the...
Provided by University of Utah EAE Master Games Studio Program
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Whitepapers
Instantaneous Cycle-Slip Detection and Repair of GPS Data Based on Doppler Measurement
Mar 2012
In GPS receivers, carrier phase measurement can be used to improve the receiver's position accuracy. In order to maintain the accuracy, cycle-slip must be detected and repaired instantaneously and...
Provided by International Journal of Information and Electronics Engineering
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Whitepapers
Design of Framework for Semantic Annotation of Geospatial Data
May 2012
Framework is a key providing for effective development, exchange, and use of geospatial as well as non-geospatial data to meet information needs generated by public domain policy. The development...
Provided by International Journal of Information and Electronics Engineering
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White Papers
Towards New Methods for Mobility Data Gathering - Content, Sources, Incentives
Jun 2009
Over the past decade, huge amounts of work have been done in mobile and opportunistic networking research. Unfortunately, much of this has had little impact as the results have not been applicable...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Efficient Multicast Stream Authentication for the Fully Adversarial Network Model
Jan 2011
Broadcast transmission enables a sender to distribute data to many receivers via a public communication channel such as the Internet. Applications cover a large scope of areas such as software...
Provided by Macquarie University
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Whitepapers
A Framework of a Personalized Location-Based Traveler Recommendation System in Mobile Application
Jul 2012
In this era of evolving technology, there are various channels and platforms through which travelers can find tour information and share their tour experience. These include tourism websites,...
Provided by Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
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Whitepapers
Semantics and Modeling of Indoor Moving Objects
Apr 2012
Moving objects in indoor space has been a research focus in recent years, as most people live and work in indoor space, e.g. working in office, living in apartment, etc. In this paper, the authors...
Provided by Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
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Whitepapers
Comparison Between RSSI-Based and TOF-Based Indoor Positioning Methods
Apr 2012
A Location-Based Service (LBS) cannot be realized unless solutions of the positioning problem are available at hand. For the outdoor positioning, GPS based practical solutions have been...
Provided by Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
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Whitepapers
Fine-Grained Time Synchronization for Mission-Critical DTSNs
Apr 2012
It is generally considered a trivial task to synchronize time in a distributed sensor network having a GPS module on board for each sensor node. This is not quite true depending on the application...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
A SDP Approach for Range-Free Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks
Apr 2008
Location awareness is of great importance for many wireless sensor network applications. However, it is too expensive to equip all nodes with GPS receivers or configure the location for each node...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
A Novel Mobility Prediction Algorithm Based on LSVR for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
Sep 2012
Mobility prediction algorithm is the significant aspect to improve QoS (Quality of Service) for heterogeneous wireless networks because it decreases handoff latency and preserves resources in...
Provided by Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
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Whitepapers
Testing OFDM-Based Positioning Using the Digital TV Signals
Aug 2012
Recent regulatory incentives (E911) and numerous location-based services and applications currently require accurate urban and indoor positioning, which are challenging environments for Global...
Provided by EURASIP
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Whitepapers
A Boltzmann Machine to Model the Multipath Environment for Particle Filtering Based GPS Navigation
Aug 2012
In GPS navigation, an accuracy of about 10 m can be currently obtained, but this performance can be strongly degraded in a multipath environment. The multipath directly impacts the distribution of...
Provided by EURASIP
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Whitepapers
Navigation System for Elderly Care Applications Based on Wireless Sensor Networks
Aug 2012
The paper presents the development of a navigation system based on wireless sensor networks specially designed for elderly care applications. The main constraints of the application scenario are...
Provided by EURASIP
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Whitepapers
Rethinking the Overhead of Geo-Localization Information for Vehicular Communications
Aug 2007
Geo-localization information is a key component for providing location-based services for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Generally obtained by GPS devices and transmitted by Wireless...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
A Planar Dual Band GPS and DSRC Antenna for Road Vehicles
Aug 2007
There are a number of initiatives ongoing in the area of wireless communications over short distances between the roadside and mobile radio units, between mobile units, and between portable units...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
An Extended Collision Judgment Algorithm for Vehicular Collision Avoidance Support System (VCASS) in Advanced ITS
Aug 2008
In recent years, researches and developments on ITS are carried out to solve many problems in road traffic. IVC (Inter-Vehicular Communications) is the key technology to realize the next...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
A Mobile Sensor System and Its Performance of Traffic Monitoring
Aug 2008
The authors present a mobile sensor system for traffic monitoring (GSSTM), which is a typically Grid application in ShanghaiGrid to provide accurate real-time traffic status information. Several...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Iterative Spreading-Sequence Acquisition in the Multiple Receive Antenna Aided DS-UWB Downlink
Aug 2008
In this paper, the authors investigate an iterative Message Passing (MP) aided PseudoNoise (PN) sequence acquisition scheme employing both beneficially selected Generator Polynomials (GPs) and...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
A New Path Loss Predicting Strategy for Radio Network Planning
Aug 2008
This paper presents a new clustering based strategy for path loss prediction. The authors describe how data mining technology can be utilized to explore the knowledge existing in massive...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Single-Feed Dual-Band Stacked Patch Antenna for Orthogonal Circularly Polarized GPS and SDARS Applications
Aug 2008
The authors describe a single-feed stacked patch antenna design that is capable of simultaneously receiving both Right Hand Circularly Polarized (RHCP) satellite signals within the GPS L1...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Secured Position Location and Tracking (SPL&T) for Detection of Multiple Malicious Nodes Maintaining Two Friendly References in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Mar 2012
Secured Position Location and Tracking (PL&T) scheme is developed for multiple malicious radios or nodes detection using integrated key based strict friendly scheme and position location and...
Provided by Prairie Public Broadcasting
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Case Studies
Digi TransPort Helps Reduce Streetlamp Power Consumption
May 2010
Hafslund is Norway's largest supplier of electric power and security, managing streetlights for local councils throughout the country. Hafslund needed to upgrade their streetlamp control system...
Provided by Digi International
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Whitepapers
Network Resource Availability Evaluation for IEEE802.11a/b Based WLAN Carrying Different Service Types
Jan 2010
A variety of wireless network technologies have been developed and deployed, including GSM/GPRS, UMTS, and WLAN. The advantages of having an integrated heterogeneous communication environment...
Provided by University of Ljubljana
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Whitepapers
A Dynamic Propagation Prediction Platform Over Irregular Terrain and Buildings for Wireless Communications
Aug 2007
The paper introduces an algorithm that converts dynamically GIS terrain and clutter information into the flat terrain input parameterization needed for COST 231 Walfisch-Ikegami model. Under this...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Clustering of Scatterers Over an Irregular Clutter Environment: An Extension of COST 273 MIMO Channel Model
Aug 2007
In this paper a realistic model that is an extension of COST 273 channel model, introducing terrain and clutter information into cluster generation, is presented. The authors' model is based on a...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Enabling IMS With Multicast and Broadcast Capabilities
Jul 2007
The evolution of third generation cellular network focuses on the provision of enriched multimedia services and the support of QoS (Quality of Service) guarantees. The IMS (IP Multimedia...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Exploiting FM Radio Data System for Adaptive Clock Calibration in Sensor Networks
Jul 2011
Clock synchronization is critical for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) due to the need of inter-node coordination and collaborative information processing. Although many message passing protocols...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
An Ubiquitous Mobile Multimedia System for Events Agenda
Mar 2012
The current growth of mobile devices enabled with GPS receptors, cameras, accelerometers, and Internet access offers new opportunities for new mobile ubiquitous multimedia applications. Such...
Provided by Dalian University Of Technology
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Whitepapers
Smart Recommendation by Mining Large-Scale GPS Traces
Mar 2012
Recommending good driving paths is valuable to taxi drivers for reducing unnecessary waste in fuel and increasing revenue. Driving only according to personal experience may lead to poor...
Provided by Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Whitepapers
Real-Time In-Network Single Frequency GPS Processing for Deformation Monitoring
Mar 2012
In this paper, the authors explore the use of Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN) for the purpose of exchanging GPS raw data within GPS stations in a WMN to support real-time in-network processing of...
Provided by Nanyang Technological University
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Whitepapers
Mobile Indoor Location Based on Fractional Differentiation
Mar 2012
While the static indoor location of a Mobile Terminal (MT) has been extensively studied on last decade, the prediction of the trajectory of a MT still is the major problem for building mobile...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Matlock: A Location Obfuscation Technique for Accuracy-Restricted Applications
Mar 2012
Location-Based Information Systems (LBIS) have shown growth in the last years thanks to the popularization of cheap GPS-enabled mobile devices with connectivity to the Internet. At the same time,...
Provided by University of South Dakota
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Whitepapers
A Novel Collaborative Navigation Architecture Based on Decentralized and Distributed Ad-Hoc Networks
May 2012
To provide services for other applications, promoting the availability of Global Positioning System (GPS) is very important. While in the urban environments or with the high power malicious...
Provided by Harbin Institute of Technology
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Whitepapers
Empirical Study on Taxi GPS Traces for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
May 2012
Inter-contact time between mobile nodes that captures the temporal characteristics of Vehicular Ad Hoc NETworks (VANETs) has been intensively studied. Whereas the node spatial distribution is...
Provided by NanJing Normal University
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Whitepapers
Adaptive-Weighting Schemes for Location-Based Services Over Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
Mar 2010
Global positioning systems, widely known as GPSs, provide timing, navigation, and positioning signals to military and civilian users. When a GPS receiver receives satellite signals, the distance...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Hybrid Mobile Positioning Management Framework Based on Radio Communication and Global Positioning Approaches
Feb 2011
Mobile devices location systems for remote objects (vehicle, person, commodity, etc.), such as RTLS (Real Time Location System) in general and AVL (Automatic Vehicle Location) particularly for...
Provided by University of Pune
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Whitepapers
A New Distributed Weighted Multidimensional Scaling Algorithm for Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks
Feb 2011
There are various applications in wireless sensor networks which require knowing the relative or actual position of the sensor nodes, but adding GPS receivers or other sophisticated sensors to...
Provided by Shahara D. Wright
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Whitepapers
The Dedicated Short-Range Vehicle Tracking
Mar 2010
This paper describes the tracking of a vehicle by using a 3-dimensional positioning system, which is composed of two 2- dimensional InfraRed (IR) signal source trackers. Once the 2D trackers...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Technical Analysis and Implementation Cost Assessment of Sigma-Point Kalman Filtering and Particle Filtering in Autonomous Navigation Systems
Mar 2010
The paper provides technical analysis and implementation cost assessment of Sigma-Point Kalman Filtering and Particle Filtering in autonomous navigation systems. As a case study, the sensor...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Smart Onboard Public Information System Using GPS & GSM Integration for Public Transport
Jul 2012
This paper describes challenges of urban transportation and one of the cost effective approach to intelligently manage the public transpiration in the city. The GPS based urban transportation...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer and Communication Engineering (IJARCCE)
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Whitepapers
VERGILIUS: A Scenario Generator for VANET
Mar 2010
Vehicular networks are on the fast track to become a reality either through a car manufacturer that introduces a communication device in the car electronics or through an aftermarket vendor such a...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Cooperative Trajectory-Based Map Construction
Feb 2012
Map construction is an integral part of many location-based services. In this paper, the authors propose a Feedback based Heuristic Map Construction Algorithm (FHMCA). This is a lightweight,...
Provided by Temple Skin Care
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Whitepapers
Encounter-Based Noise Cancelation for Cooperative Trajectory Mapping
Jan 2012
Cooperative trajectory mapping is an emerging technique that allows users to create a map by using data collected from each participant's mobile phones. Unlike the traditional localization...
Provided by Temple Skin Care
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Whitepapers
GFG-Assisted Human Tracking Using Smart Phones
Jul 2012
Mobile phones are increasingly being equipped with hardware and software services that allow them to determine their locations; however, support for building location-based applications remains a...
Provided by Temple Skin Care
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Whitepapers
Wormhole Defense for Cooperative Trajectory Mapping
Jan 2012
Cooperative trajectory mapping is an emerging technique that allows users to collaboratively map a person's movements without using GPS measurements in indoor scenarios. This is accomplished by...
Provided by Temple Skin Care
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Whitepapers
DTMB-GPS Software Receiver for Urban and Indoor Positioning
Aug 2012
This paper presents realization of positioning based on DTMB (Digital Television Terrestrial Multimedia Broadcasting) and GPS (Global Positioning System) in urban or indoor environment by means of...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
A Large Scale Cooperative Localization Method
Aug 2012
Smart phones and Location Based Services (LBSs) are getting very popular in recent years. To this end, locating the positions of smart phones becomes inevitable. To date, there exist some...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
QOS Based Localization Method Using Single Beacon in Wireless Sensor Networks
Aug 2012
Location awareness among the participating nodes is one of the crucial requirements in designing solutions for various issues related to WSNs. Node localization is required in reporting the origin...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Multi-Modal Message Dissemination in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks
Aug 2012
As a fundamental network property, Inter-Contact Time (ICT) determines the critical performance metrics of a Vehicular Ad-hoc NETwork (VANET). In this paper, the authors extract the contact...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
A Performance Analysis of LAR Protocol for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks in City Scenarios
Oct 2012
In this paper, performance analysis of Location Aided Routing (LAR) protocol in different city scenarios has been done. The mobility model considered is manhattan model. This mobility model used...
Provided by Jawaharlal Nehru University
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White Papers
Queuing Processes in GPS and PGPS With LRD Traffic Inputs
Jan 2011
Long Range Dependent (LRD) traffic whose single server queue process is Weibull Bounded (WB) is first analyzed. Two upper bounds on the individual session's queue length of LRD traffic under the...
Provided by University of New York at Buffalo
-
White Papers
A Route Identification Algorithm for Assisted Living Applications Fusing WLAN, GPS and Image Matching Data
Feb 2010
This paper addresses the automatic identification of often traversed routes for assisted living applications using WLAN technology in addition to other modalities. This problem is complicated by a...
Provided by Dublin City University
-
White Papers
Fuzzy Logic for Cross-Layer Optimization in Cognitive Radio Networks
Jan 2011
The search for the ultimate architecture for cross-layer optimization in cognitive radio networks is characterized by challenges such as modularity, interpretability, imprecision, scalability, and...
Provided by University of Padova
-
Whitepapers
The Design of a Voice Navigation System for the Blind in Negative Feelings Environment
Sep 2009
The authors have developed a voice navigation system called VONAVS for blind person. The main point of the guidance support method for visually impaired person and blind person is show the...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
-
White Papers
Location Aided Hybrid Routing Algorithm for MANET
Feb 2011
In this paper, the authors propose a new hybrid routing protocol for MANET called Location Aided Hybrid Routing Protocol for MANET (LAHRP). The proposed routing algorithm not only aims to optimize...
Provided by Mansoura University
-
Whitepapers
To Reveal the Performance Secrets of the Newest NN Searching Algorithm
Jan 2008
Nearest Neighbor (NN) search has been widely used in spatial databases and multimedia databases. Incremental NN (INN) search algorithm is regarded as the optimal NN search because of the minimum...
Provided by Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
-
White Papers
Effects of Anchor Placement on Mean-CRB for Localization
Jun 2011
In this paper the authors discuss the lower bound i.e. the Cramer-Rao-Bound (CRB) on the accuracy of localization of nodes in a wireless network. The authors investigate the effects of anchor (or...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Radio Communication Model for Mobile Positioning Devices
Nov 2010
Location systems are becoming increasingly sought today to ensure the location of distant objects, to facilitate the management of personnel and their products, increase the productivity, etc....
Provided by University of Sherbrooke
-
White Papers
Cooperative Transit Tracking Using Smart-Phones
Nov 2010
Real-time transit tracking is gaining popularity as a means for transit agencies to improve the rider experience. However, many transit agencies lack either the funding or initiative to provide...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
A Review of Localization Algorithms for Distributed Wireless Sensor Networks in Manufacturing
Jul 2009
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) typically consist of a large number of densely populated sensor nodes. Due to important advances in integrated circuits and radio technologies, the use of...
Provided by Politecnico di Torino
-
White Papers
A Comparison of Two Distributed Large-Volume Measurement Systems: The Mobile Spatial Co-Ordinate Measuring System and the Indoor Global Positioning System
May 2009
Advances in the area of industrial metrology have generated new technologies that are capable of measuring components with complex geometry and large dimensions. However, no standard or...
Provided by Institution of Mechanical Engineers
-
White Papers
Experimental Comparison of Dynamic Tracking Performance of iGPS and Laser Tracker
Jan 2011
External metrology systems are increasingly being integrated with traditional industrial articulated robots, especially in the aerospace industries, to improve their absolute accuracy for...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
-
White Papers
Sources of Variability in the Set-Up of an Indoor GPS
Jun 2010
An increasing demand for an extended flexibility to model types and production volumes in the manufacture of large-size assemblies has generated a growing interest in the reduction of jigs and...
Provided by University of Bath
-
White Papers
Indoor GPS: System Functionality and Initial Performance Evaluation
Jun 2010
Indoor GPS (IGPS) is a newly developed laser based measuring system for large scale metrology. The relative portability, reconfigurability and ease of installation make the IGPS suitable for many...
Provided by Inderscience Enterprises
-
White Papers
Graph Indexing of Road Networks for Shortest Path Queries With Label Restrictions
Jan 2011
The current widespread use of location-based services and GPS technologies has revived interest in very fast and scalable shortest path queries. The authors introduce a new shortest path query...
Provided by VLDB Endowment
-
White Papers
A High Performance Scalable QoS Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Mar 2011
A Mobile Ad hoc NETwork (MANET) consists of a set of mobile hosts capable that form a temporary network on the fly without using any fixed infrastructure. The nodes operate both as hosts and...
Provided by Islamic Azad University
-
Whitepapers
Improving Anchor Position Accuracy for 3-D Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks
Apr 2008
Accuracy of ordinary sensor node localization in wireless sensor networks mainly depends on the signal parameter such as time-of-arrival and signal strength estimation errors and the accuracy of...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
-
Whitepapers
Performance Analysis of Dropped Packets for Location Aided Routing Protocol Using Artificial Intelligence
Jun 2012
Location Aided Routing protocol (LAR) is an on demand protocol in MANET which uses GPS in mobile nodes to find the location of node. It calculates routing when it is needed. LAR protocol has two...
Provided by IOSR Journal of Engineering
-
Whitepapers
Forward-Link Throughput Optimization for Wireless Cellular Packet Data Networks
Oct 2011
An attempt has been made in this paper to access the control layer of the General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) network Base Station (BS), using throughput optimization. The authors focus on the...
Provided by University of Utah EAE Master Games Studio Program
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Whitepapers
NetApp: Building Next Generation Agile Storage
Sep 2012
"Next generation storage" used to refer to scale-out storage systems. Now that we're seeing a broad transition to such systems, it begs the question: what's the next, next generation storage...
Provided by NetApp
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Whitepapers
Instantaneous Cycle-Slip Detection and Repair of GPS Data Based on Doppler Measurement
Mar 2012
In GPS receivers, carrier phase measurement can be used to improve the receiver's position accuracy. In order to maintain the accuracy, cycle-slip must be detected and repaired instantaneously and...
Provided by International Journal of Information and Electronics Engineering
-
Whitepapers
Design of Framework for Semantic Annotation of Geospatial Data
May 2012
Framework is a key providing for effective development, exchange, and use of geospatial as well as non-geospatial data to meet information needs generated by public domain policy. The development...
Provided by International Journal of Information and Electronics Engineering
-
White Papers
Towards New Methods for Mobility Data Gathering - Content, Sources, Incentives
Jun 2009
Over the past decade, huge amounts of work have been done in mobile and opportunistic networking research. Unfortunately, much of this has had little impact as the results have not been applicable...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
Whitepapers
Efficient Multicast Stream Authentication for the Fully Adversarial Network Model
Jan 2011
Broadcast transmission enables a sender to distribute data to many receivers via a public communication channel such as the Internet. Applications cover a large scope of areas such as software...
Provided by Macquarie University
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Whitepapers
A Framework of a Personalized Location-Based Traveler Recommendation System in Mobile Application
Jul 2012
In this era of evolving technology, there are various channels and platforms through which travelers can find tour information and share their tour experience. These include tourism websites,...
Provided by Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
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Semantics and Modeling of Indoor Moving Objects
Apr 2012
Moving objects in indoor space has been a research focus in recent years, as most people live and work in indoor space, e.g. working in office, living in apartment, etc. In this paper, the authors...
Provided by Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
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Comparison Between RSSI-Based and TOF-Based Indoor Positioning Methods
Apr 2012
A Location-Based Service (LBS) cannot be realized unless solutions of the positioning problem are available at hand. For the outdoor positioning, GPS based practical solutions have been...
Provided by Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
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Fine-Grained Time Synchronization for Mission-Critical DTSNs
Apr 2012
It is generally considered a trivial task to synchronize time in a distributed sensor network having a GPS module on board for each sensor node. This is not quite true depending on the application...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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A SDP Approach for Range-Free Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks
Apr 2008
Location awareness is of great importance for many wireless sensor network applications. However, it is too expensive to equip all nodes with GPS receivers or configure the location for each node...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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A Novel Mobility Prediction Algorithm Based on LSVR for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
Sep 2012
Mobility prediction algorithm is the significant aspect to improve QoS (Quality of Service) for heterogeneous wireless networks because it decreases handoff latency and preserves resources in...
Provided by Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
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Interference Analysis From Non-Communication Device Into GPS Service
Jan 2012
The authors present interference analysis from Non-communication device which is used in many applications such as factory, home and hospital into Global Positioning System (GPS) Service. GPS...
Provided by Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
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Design and Implementation of Real-Time Software Radio for Anti-Interference GPS/WAAS Sensors
Oct 2012
Adaptive antenna array processing is widely known to provide significant anti-interference capabilities within a Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) receiver. A main challenge in the quest...
Provided by Stanford Technology Ventures Program
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Design and Evaluation of Experiment Methods for Improving Performance In GIS Web Services
Jan 2008
By introducing Web Services, distributed GIS (Geospatial Information System) services from different vendors can be dynamically integrated into a GIS application using the interoperable standard...
Provided by Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
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An Effective Analysis of Spatial Data Mining Methods Using Range Queries
Jun 2012
This paper reviews the data mining methods that are combined with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for carrying out spatial analysis of geographic data. The authors will first look at data...
Provided by Journal of Global Research in Computer Science (JGRCS)
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Connectivity Improvement for Inter-Domain Routing in MANETs
Aug 2010
Inter-domain routing for MANETs (Mobile Ad Hoc NETworks) draws increasing attention because of military and vehicular applications. Most of the proposed inter-domain routing protocols are using...
Provided by UC Regents
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Leveling With GPS
Jul 2012
Leveling in surveying is the term stand for height difference determination between ground points. If a datum surface is defined for the observed points, the heights of these points (reduced...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Telecommunications
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Towards Fine-Grained Urban Traffic Knowledge Extraction Using Mobile Sensing
Jun 2012
The authors introduce their vision for mining fine-grained urban traffic knowledge from mobile sensing, especially GPS location traces. Beyond characterizing human mobility patterns and measuring...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Compact Multi Frequency Slotted Microstrip Patch Antenna With Enhanced Bandwidth Using Defected Ground Structure for Mobile Communication
Apr 2012
In recent years, great interest was focused on microstrip antennas for their low profile, light weight, small volume and compability with Microwave Integrated Circuit (MIC) and Monolithic...
Provided by INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE & ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
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Histogram-Based Detection of Moving Objects for Tracker Initialization in Surveillance Video
Sep 2011
The authors present an approach to localized object detection that is not dependent upon background image construction or object modeling. It is designed to work through camera embedded software...
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Measurement and Analysis of Wireless Channel Impairments in DSRC Vehicular Communications
Apr 2008
The authors present a GPS-enabled channel sounding platform for measuring both vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-roadside wireless channels. This platform was used to conduct an extensive field...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
