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In future wireless communication networks, existing active localization will gradually evolve into more sophisticated (passive) sensing functionalities. One main enabler for this process is the merging of information collected from the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Maximilian Bauhofer , Silvio Mandelli , Marcus Henninger , Thorsten Wild , Stephan ten Brink

An unknown-position sensor can be localized if there are three or more anchors making time-of-arrival (TOA) measurements of a signal from it. However, the location errors can be very large due to the fact that some of the measurements are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Hongyang Chen , Kenneth W. K. Lui , Zizhuo Wang , H. C. So , H. Vincent Poor

Ultra-wideband (UWB) positioning has emerged as a low-cost and dependable localization solution for multiple use cases, from mobile robots to asset tracking within the Industrial IoT. The technology is mature and the scientific literature…

We investigate the problem of localizing multiple targets using a single set of measurements from a network of radar sensors. Such "single snapshot imaging" provides timely situational awareness, but can utilize neither platform motion, as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-01 Anant Gupta , Ahmet Dundar Sezer , Upamanyu Madhow

Machine learning has been considered a promising approach for indoor localization. Nevertheless, the sample efficiency, scalability, and generalization ability remain open issues of implementing learning-based algorithms in practical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-24 Haiyao Yu , Changyang She , Yunkai Hu , Geng Wang , Rui Wang , Branka Vucetic , Yonghui Li

UAVs equipped with a single depth camera encounter significant challenges in dynamic obstacle avoidance due to limited field of view and inevitable blind spots. While active vision strategies that steer onboard cameras have been proposed to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Chi Zhang , Xian Huang , Wei Dong

Foot-mounted inertial positioning (FMIP) and fingerprinting based WiFi indoor positioning (FWIP) are two promising solutions for indoor positioning. However, FMIP suffers from accumulative positioning errors in the long term while FWIP…

Applications · Statistics 2017-04-12 Yang Gu , Caifa Zhou , Andreas Wieser , Zhimin Zhou

We consider the challenging problem of tracking multiple objects using a distributed network of sensors. In the practical setting of nodes with limited field of views (FoVs), computing power and communication resources, we develop a novel…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Hoa Van Nguyen , Hamid Rezatofighi , Ba-Ngu Vo , Damith C. Ranasinghe

Device-free Wi-Fi sensing has numerous benefits in practical settings, as it eliminates the requirement for dedicated sensing devices and can be accomplished using current low-cost Wi-Fi devices. With the development of Wi-Fi standards,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-16 Wenbo Ding , Yang Li , Dongsheng Wang , Bin Zhao , Yunrong Zhu , Yibo Zhang , Yumeng Miao

Most recent network failure diagnosis systems focused on data center networks where complex measurement systems can be deployed to derive routing information and ensure network coverage in order to achieve accurate and fast fault…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Yufeng Xin , Shih-Wen Fu , Anirban Mandal , Ryan Tanaka , Mats Rynge , Karan Vahi , Ewa Deelman

In this paper, a comprehensive survey of the pioneer as well as the state of-the-art localization and tracking methods in the wireless sensor networks is presented. Localization is mostly applicable for the static sensor nodes, whereas,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Sudhir Kumar , Rajesh M. Hegde

Fingerprinting-based indoor localization methods typically require labor-intensive site surveys to collect signal measurements at known reference locations and frequent recalibration, which limits their scalability. This paper addresses…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-18 Haozhou Hu , Harpreet S. Dhillon , R. Michael Buehrer

Device-free localization (DFL) methods use measured changes in the received signal strength (RSS) between many pairs of RF nodes to provide location estimates of a person inside the wireless network. Fundamental challenges for RSS DFL…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Peter Hillyard , Neal Patwari

Device-free localization plays an important role in many ubiquitous applications. Among the different technologies proposed, Wi-Fi based technology using commercial devices has attracted much attention due to its low cost, ease of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Hao Wang , Daqing Zhang , Kai Niu , Qin Lv , Yuanhuai Liu , Dan Wu , Ruiyang Gao , Bing Xie

In this work, we consider the task of target localization using quantized data in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). We propose an energy efficient localization scheme by modeling it as an iterative classification problem. We design coding…

Applications · Statistics 2016-11-18 Aditya Vempaty , Yunghsiang S. Han , Pramod K. Varshney

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are composed of nodes that gather metrics like temperature, pollution or pressure from events generated by external entities. Localization in WSNs is paramount, given that the collected metrics must be…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-06-11 Luis Sanabria-Russo , Cristina Cano , Boris Bellalta

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) localization refers to the problem of determining the position of each of the agents in a WSN using noisy measurement information. In many cases, such as in distance and bearing-based localization, the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-06 Shiraz Khan , Inseok Hwang , James Goppert

Localization is widely used in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) to identify the current location of the sensor odes. A WSN consist of thousands of nodes that make the installation of GPS on each sensor node expensive and moreover GPS may not…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-11-03 Jeril Kuriakose , Sandeep Joshi , V. I. George

We propose an algorithm for the Wireless Sensor Network localization problem, which is based on the well-known algorithmic framework of Alternating Minimization. We start with a non-smooth and non-convex minimization, and transform it into…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-30 Eyal Gur , Shoham Sabach , Shimrit Shtern

WiFi-based localization became one of the main indoor localization techniques due to the ubiquity of WiFi connectivity. However, indoor environments exhibit complex wireless propagation characteristics. Typically, these characteristics are…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-08-04 Heba Aly , Moustafa Youssef