Location-aware technologies will revolutionize many aspects of commercial, public service,
and military sectors, and are expected to spawn numerous unforeseen applications. A new …

Location estimation is significant in mobile and ubiquitous computing systems. The
complexity and smaller scale of the indoor environment impose a great impact on location …

Severe multipath in indoor areas causes undetected direct path (UDP) conditions, which
pose a serious challenge to the design of robust precision indoor geolocation systems …

In this survey, we review recent advances on cooperative localization techniques and
identify critical challenges in realistic cooperative localization systems. Particularly, we focus …

In recent years there has been growing interest in ad-hoc and wireless sensor networks
(WSNs) for a variety of indoor applications. Localization information in these networks is an …

Ultra-wideband positioning systems intended for indoor applications often work in non-line
of sight conditions, which result in insufficient precision and accuracy of derived …

Precise and accurate localization is one of the fundamental scientific and engineering
technologies needed for the applications enabling the emergence of the Smart World and …

In this paper, we mathematically characterize the improvement in device localizability
achieved by allowing collaboration among devices. Depending on the detection sensitivity …

Recently, extensive simulation-based research has shown a benefit to collaboration in
wireless location estimation. However, an open question is “Is collaboration always …

Precise localization has attracted considerable traction in the area of cooperative
assignments for robots in indoor applications. When dealing with indoor applications we are …