Location Determination within Wireless Networks

Many location determination systems have recently
been proposed, and most of them are based on one or
more of the following four methods: lateration,
angulation, fingerprinting, and dead-reckoning.
However, existing systems require either dedicated
hardware support or extensive human interaction. This
book, therefore, provides a comprehensive study on
the design, analysis, and evaluation of both indoor
and outdoor localization systems. The book introduces
a new dynamic indoor localization tool called
ARIADNE, it also presents two multidimensional
scaling based algorithms for outdoor sensor networks.
Thus this research transforms indoor/outdoor
localization systems from high cost, labor intensive,
imprecise, and static technologies to affordable,
automated, accurate, and dynamic systems. Research
results are ready to be integrated with a wide range
of applications without requiring additional
infrastructure, other wireless technologies or manual
operations. Comparison study should help
professionals better understand current status of the
research in wireless location determination, and
theoretical analysis would also serve as valuable
standards for other research in the community.

Autorentext

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

Klappentext

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.