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. 2021 Feb 2;21(3):1002. doi: 10.3390/s21031002
AAL Ambient Assisted Living
AI Artificial Intelligence
AoA Angle of Arrival
AP Access Point
BLE Bluetooth Low Energy
CDF Cumulative distribution Function
CIPS Collaborative Indoor Positioning System
CSI Channel State Information
CTP Collection tree protocol
D2D Device to Device
DR Dead Reckoning
EKF Extended Kalman Filter
FM Frequency Modulation
GLONASS Globalnaya Navigazionnaya Sputnikovaya Sistema
GDPR General Data Protection Regulation
GNSS Global Navigation Satellite System
GPS Global Positioning System
IMU Inertial Measurement Unit
IoT Internet of Things
IPS Indoor Position System
k-NN k-Nearest Neighbors
LBS location-based service
LOS Line-of-sight
LS Least Square
LTE Long-Term Evolution
MEMS Microelectro-Mechanical System
NLLS Non-Linear Least Square
NLOS Non-line-of-sight
PDR Pedestrian Dead Reckoning
PRISMA Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
RF Radio Frequency
RFID Radio-Frequency Identification
RMSE Root Mean Square Error
RSS Received Signal Strength
RSSI Received Signal Strength Indicator
SVM Support Vector Machine
TDoA Time Difference of Arrival
ToA Time of Arrival
ToA/ToF Time of Arrival/Flight
TWR Two-way Ranging
UDP User Datagram Protocol
UTDoA Uplink Time-Difference-of-Arrival
UWB Ultra-wide band
VLC Visible Light Communication
WASP Wireless Application Service Provider
Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11Wireless LAN
WSN Wireless Sensor Network