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	<REFERENCE_TYPE>3</REFERENCE_TYPE>
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		<AUTHOR>Haeberlen, A.</AUTHOR>
		<AUTHOR>Flannery, E.</AUTHOR>
		<AUTHOR>Ladd, A. M.</AUTHOR>
		<AUTHOR>Rudys, A.</AUTHOR>
		<AUTHOR>Wallach, D. S.</AUTHOR>
		<AUTHOR>Kavraki, L. E.</AUTHOR>
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	<YEAR>2004</YEAR>
	<TITLE>Practical Robust Localization over Large-Scale 802.11 Wireless Networks</TITLE>
	<SECONDARY_TITLE>Proceedings of the Tenth ACM International                  Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking                  (MOBICOM 2004)</SECONDARY_TITLE>
	<PLACE_PUBLISHED>Philadelphia, PA</PLACE_PUBLISHED>
	<PAGES>70-84</PAGES>
	<DATE>Sept. 26 - Oct. </DATE>
	<ABSTRACT>We demonstrate a system built using probabilistic techniques that allows for remarkably accurate localization across our entire office building using nothing more than the built-in signal intensity meter supplied by standard 802.11 cards. While prior systems have required significant investments of human labor to build a detailed signal map, we can train our system by spending less than one minute per office or region, walking around with a laptop and recording the observed signal intensities of our building's unmodified base stations. We actually collected over two minutes of data per office or region, about 28 man-hours of effort. Using less than half of this data to train the localizer, we can localize a user to the precise, correct location in over 95% of our attempts, across the entire building. Even in the most pathological cases, we almost never localize a user any more distant than to the neighboring office. A user can obtain this level of accuracy with only two or three signal intensity measurements, allowing for a high frame rate of localization results. Furthermore, with a brief calibration period, our system can be adapted to work with previously unknown user hardware. We present results demonstrating the robustness of our system against a variety of untrained time-varying phenomena, including the presence or absence of people in the building across the day. Our system is sufficiently robust to enable a variety of location-aware applications without requiring special-purpose hardware or complicated training and calibration procedures.</ABSTRACT>
	<URL>http://www.kavrakilab.org/sites/default/files/mobicom2004.pdf</URL>
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