WLAN location sharing through a privacy observant architecture

Abstract— In the last few years, WLAN has seen immense growth and it will continue this trend due to the fact that it provides convenient connectivity as well as high speed links. Furthermore, the infrastructure already exists in most public places and is cheap to extend. These advantages, together with the fact that WLAN covers a large area and is not restricted to line of sight, have led to developing many WLAN localization techniques and applications based on them. In this paper we present a novel calibration-free localization technique using the existing WLAN infrastructure that enables conference participants to determine their location without the need of a centralized system. The evaluation results illustrate the superiority of our technique compared to existing methods. In addition, we present a privacy observant architecture to share location information. We handle both the location of people and the resources in the infrastructure as services, which can be easily discovered...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: COMSWARE
• Authors: Kavitha Muthukrishnan, Nirvana Meratnia, Maria Eva Lijding, Georgi Koprinkov, Paul J. M. Havinga
• Keywords: Calibration-free Localization Technique, COMSWARE 2006, WLAN Infrastructure, WLAN Localization Techniques