Location is one of the most important contexts used in the applications in the pervasive computing environments . It helps the application do the right thing at the right place. O...
With the wide spread growth of mobile computing devices and local area wireless networks, wireless network providers have started to target the users with value-added services bas...
—Due to the proliferation of WiFi access points, indoor localization methods based on WiFi signal strengths are becoming more and more attractive because they don’t require add...
Location Awareness is key capability of Context-Aware Ubiquitous environments. Received Signal Strength (RSS) based localization is increasingly popular choice especially for in-bu...
Cellular radios consume more power and suffer reduced data rate when the signal is weak. According to our measurements, the communication energy per bit can be as much as 6x highe...