• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2010.10a
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• pp.122-124
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• 2010

WPS(Wifi Positioning System) is a location determination technique that utilizes AP information scattered all over the real world. In general, the finger print technique is used for location calculations in WPS. However the finger print technique is a location determination technique that utilizes average values and has problems in the accuracy of the location determination. It also shows low performance of the system due to arithmetic operations. In this paper, the MSS(Max Signal Strength) method is proposed to resolve the existing problems in the finger print technique. The proposed method can reduce the operation time and improve the accuracy of the system under the same conditions. Test environments of the system is presented and the performance of the system is analyzed to verify the methods.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.433-439
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• 2011

The positioning system based on wireless AP collects AP information distributed in the real world, stores it into database, and measures the position objects by comparing with searched AP information. The existing fingerprinting method is a probabilistic modeling method that acquires much of the data collected from one location upon database composition, and stores the average of the data for the sake of use it in positioning objects. Using the average value, however, may cause the probability of errors Such errors are fatal weaknesses for services based on the accurate position. This paper described the characteristics and problems of the previously used wireless AP positioning system, and proposed a method of using the AP DB and an MSS mechanism for outdoor positioning in order to solve the aforementioned problems. And the results obtained from experimental tests showed that the proposed method achieved very low error rate(27%) compared with the existing method.