xD-track: leveraging multi-dimensional information for passive wi-fi tracking

@article{Xie2016xDtrackLM,
  title={xD-track: leveraging multi-dimensional information for passive wi-fi tracking},
  author={Yaxiong Xie and Jie Xiong and Mo Li and Kyle Jamieson},
  journal={Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Hot Topics in Wireless},
  year={2016},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:114458509}
}
  • Yaxiong XieJie Xiong K. Jamieson
  • Published in HotWireless@MobiCom 3 October 2016
  • Computer Science, Engineering
  • Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Hot Topics in Wireless
We describe the design and implementation of xD-Track, the first practical Wi-Fi based device-free localization system that employs a simultaneous and joint estimation of time-of-flight,…
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