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If you ever wondered why your good cellphone connection just started making that scratchy noise when you stepped couple of feet away or during your daily commute your favorite NPR station produced that awful hiss when stopped at a red light and so on.. you are witnessing a wireless phenomenon called fading. Technically, there are two types of fading: multipath and shadow. The first one is mostly the cause for drastic signal change when you move very short distances. This is c

Recently I came across this method commonly applied in financial statistics for computing joint distributions from marginal distributions and a dependency metric. A recent paper that I submitted to Globecom tries to leverage this technique to create a cost function for localizing a wireless transmitter by measuring its signal strength by multiple wireless receivers placed at known locations in an indoor environment. Signal strength measured by receivers without processing is