Front Matter -- Introduction / Joaõ Figueiras, Francescantonio Della Rosa, Simone Frattasi -- Application Areas of Positioning / Simone Frattasi -- Basics of Wireless Communications for Positioning / Gilberto Berardinelli, Nicola Marchetti -- Fundamentals of Positioning / João Figueiras -- Data Fusion and Filtering Techniques / João Figueiras -- Fundamentals of Tracking / João Figueiras -- Error Mitigation Techniques / Ismail Guvenc -- Positioning Systems and Technologies / Andreas Waadt, Guido Bruck, Peter Jung -- Ultra-wideband Positioning and Tracking / Davide Dardari -- Indoor Positioning in WLAN / Francescantonio Della Rosa, Mauro Pelosi, Jari Nurmi -- Cooperative Multi-tag Localization in RFID Systems: Exploiting Multiplicity, Diversity and Polarization of Tags / Tanveer Bhuiyan, Simone Frattasi -- Cooperative Mobile Positioning / Simone Frattasi, Joaõ Figueiras, Francescantonio Della Rosa -- References -- Index.

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