Title: Locating schemes based on adaptive weighting strategy in heterogeneous wireless networks

Authors: Sheng-Cheng Yeh; Wu-Hsiao Hsu

Addresses: Department of Computer and Communications Engineering, Ming Chuan University, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan ' Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Ming Chuan University, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan

Abstract: Global positioning system (GPS) is the most common technology providing location-based services. When a GPS receiver receives satellite signals, the distance between the satellite and the user is calculated, and then the users current position is located using the triangulation method. However, there is a possibility that landforms, shelters and the number of satellites can have an impact on the satellite signal. This paper combines different heterogeneous wireless networks (i.e., WiFi and ZigBee networks) to improve localisation accuracy, especially when GPS receivers cannot receive a signal. In addition, this paper further demonstrated that combining the WiFi and ZigBee localisation systems achieves almost the same precision as the GPS given without shelter.

Keywords: GPS; global positioning systems; WiFi; wireless LANS; local area networks; WLANs; ZigBee; RSSI; received signal strength; RSS index; LBS; location based services; heterogeneous wireless networks; localisation accuracy.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2013.057620

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2013 Vol.14 No.2, pp.99 - 108

Received: 13 Oct 2011
Accepted: 19 Sep 2012

Published online: 16 Nov 2013 *

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