In a wireless communication network, the location of an addressable
receiver relative to the locations of a plurality of addressable sources
of electromagnetic radiation is found using probabilistic models of the
signal strength measured at the addressable receiver. The inventive
method provides location determination on a finer spatial scale than was
heretofore available. A region of interest is calibrated via a
discrete-space radio map storing probability distributions of received
signal strength at the measurement locations. The stored probability
distributions are compensated for temporal variability and biases, such
as through temporal correlations of the sampled received signal strength.
A measurement of the signal strength at the addressable receiver from
each of the plurality of addressable sources is used in conjunction with
the discrete-space radio map to identify one of the coordinates thereof
that maximizes the conditional probability P(xls), where x is the radio
map location and s is a vector of measured signal strengths.