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Apple 'stunned' to discover iPhone signal strength flaw

...Apple's iPhone handsets have been over-reporting signal strength since they were first launched, the company said in response to... Read more

2 July, 2010 by David Meyer
WiFi Scanner 1.7.1

WiFi Scanner 1.7.1

...surveys, wireless discovery, and to connect to wifi networks. The tool reports signal strength in dBm and shows access point BSSID/MAC addresses Read more

12 May, 2012
AirRadar 2.2.3

AirRadar 2.2.3

...as favourites or filter them out. View detailed network information, graph network signal strength, and automatically join the best open network in range. Whether you... Read more

8 February, 2012
GPS Status for Android 3.8.1

GPS Status for Android 3.8.1

GPS Status for Android shows the position, number, and signal strength of GPS satellites. Check your position, GPS accuracy, speed, acceleration, and... Read more

18 July, 2011
WiFi Scanner 1.2.1

WiFi Scanner 1.2.1

...surveys, wireless discovery, and to connect to wifi networks.- The tool reports signal strength in dBm and shows access point BSSID/MAC addresses.- Demo Video... Read more

5 March, 2011
Designing Localization Algorithms Robust to <endeca_term>Signal Strength</endeca_term> Attacks

Designing Localization Algorithms Robust to Signal Strength Attacks

Received Signal Strength (RSS) based localization algorithms are sensitive to a set of non... Read more

27 March, 2011
Received <endeca_term>Signal Strength</endeca_term> Gradient Estimation for Mobile Networks

Received Signal Strength Gradient Estimation for Mobile Networks

...the question: as a receiver moves along a trajectory, is its Received Signal Strength (RSS) increasing or decreasing? This is an important question for mobile... Read more

23 October, 2010
Empirical Evaluation of <endeca_term>Signal-Strength</endeca_term> Fingerprint Positioning in Wireless LANs

Empirical Evaluation of Signal-Strength Fingerprint Positioning in Wireless LANs

...a novel localization technique based on a multivariate Gaussian modeling of the signal strength measurements collected from several Access Points (APs) at different locations. It... Read more

19 October, 2010
<endeca_term>Signal Strength</endeca_term> Detector 1.1

Signal Strength Detector 1.1

...currently being utilized. Furthermore, it is even more difficult to determine the signal strength of these radios.Signal Strength Detector is a simple application to... Read more

25 January, 2012
RFID-Based Mobile Robot Positioning - Sensors and Techniques

RFID-Based Mobile Robot Positioning - Sensors and Techniques

Mobile robot navigation using analog signal strength of a Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) device is a promising alternative... Read more

27 December, 2011
An Improved RFID Localization Algorithm Based on Layer By Layer Exclusion

An Improved RFID Localization Algorithm Based on Layer By Layer Exclusion

Most of existing RFID indoor localization algorithm is based on the signal strength values, reference tags and ranging location. After these algorithms are applied... Read more

1 December, 2011
Distributed Power Control and Coding-Modulation Adaptation in Wireless Networks Using Annealed Gibbs Sampling

Distributed Power Control and Coding-Modulation Adaptation in Wireless Networks Using Annealed Gibbs Sampling

...wireless networks, the transmission rate of a link is determined by received signal strength, interference from simultaneous transmissions, and available coding-modulation schemes. Rate allocation... Read more

27 August, 2011
RSSI-Based Indoor Mobile Localization in Wireless Sensor Network

RSSI-Based Indoor Mobile Localization in Wireless Sensor Network

Location techniques play an important part in wireless sensor network. The Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) based localization is a promising technique since it requires... Read more

1 July, 2011
Implementation and Validation of a New Combined Model for Outdoor to Indoor Radio Coverage Predictions

Implementation and Validation of a New Combined Model for Outdoor to Indoor Radio Coverage Predictions

A new model used to compute the outdoor to indoor signal strength emitted from an outdoor base station is presented. This model is... Read more

13 August, 2010
Reducing the Calibration Effort for Probabilistic Indoor Location Estimation

Reducing the Calibration Effort for Probabilistic Indoor Location Estimation

WLAN location estimation based on 802.11 signal strength is becoming increasingly prevalent in today's pervasive computing applications. Among... Read more

6 August, 2010

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