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Measurement Selection Strategies for Position Estimation in Indoor Environments

Signal Processing 2026-05-20 v1 Emerging Technologies Numerical Analysis General Topology Numerical Analysis

Abstract

Time-based indoor positioning techniques rely on multiple access points (APs) and measurements between the user equipment (UE) and the APs. In dense indoor environments, occlusion-induced non-line-of-sight (NLoS) propagation introduces significant delays in these measurements, thereby degrading position estimation accuracy. To address this challenge, this paper proposes measurement selection strategies to improve position estimation accuracy. A ray-tracing (RT) simulator is employed to characterize the propagation environment and derive AP neighborhood information, which is subsequently used to design and evaluate different measurement selection strategies. The approaches explored include AP neighborhood-based cardinality selection, intersection and union of measurements from AP neighborhoods, and fixed measurement selection. Experiments demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed measurement selection strategies in environments under significant NLoS conditions.

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@article{arxiv.2605.19406,
  title  = {Measurement Selection Strategies for Position Estimation in Indoor Environments},
  author = {Neetu R. R and Shrihari Vasudevan and Ranjani H. G},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.19406},
  year   = {2026}
}