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With the rising demand for indoor localization, high precision technique-based fingerprints became increasingly important nowadays. The newest advanced localization system makes effort to improve localization accuracy in the time or…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-25 Kaixuan Huang , Chenlu Xiang , Shunqing Zhang , Shugong Xu , Xianfeng Ma , Qinglong Xian , Hua Yang

In this paper, we introduce two indoor Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) positioning methods using augmented sparse recovery algorithms. These schemes render a sparse user's position vector, and in parallel, minimize the distance between…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-10-20 Ali Khalajmehrabadi , Nikolaos Gatsis , Daniel Pack , David Akopian

The localization problem in a wireless sensor network is to determine the coordination of sensor nodes using the known positions of some nodes (called anchors) and corresponding noisy distance measurements. There is a variety of different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-19 Pouya Mollaebrahim Ghari , Reza Shahbazian , Seyed Ali Ghorashi

Localization in outdoor wireless systems typically requires transmitting specific reference signals to estimate distance (trilateration methods) or angle (triangulation methods). These cause overhead on communication, need a LoS link to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-15 João Morais , Ahmed Alkhateeb

In indoor positioning, signal fluctuation is highly location-dependent. However, signal uncertainty is one critical yet commonly overlooked dimension of the radio signal to be fingerprinted. This paper reviews the commonly used Gaussian…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-24 Ran Guan , Andi Zhang , Mengchao Li , Yongliang Wang

Localization of a wireless mobile device or a robot in indoor and GPS-denied environments is a difficult problem, particularly in dynamic scenarios where traditional cameras and LIDAR-based alternative sensing and localization modalities…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Ehsan Latif , Ramviyas Parasuraman

Fingerprints are widely recognized as one of the most unique and reliable characteristics of human identity. Most modern fingerprint authentication systems rely on contact-based fingerprints, which require the use of fingerprint scanners or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 M. G. Sarwar Murshed , Syed Konain Abbas , Sandip Purnapatra , Daqing Hou , Faraz Hussain

Accurate and robust indoor localization is critical for smart building applications, yet existing Wi-Fi-based systems are often vulnerable to environmental conditions. This work presents a novel indoor localization system, called LiGen,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Jie Lin , Hsun-Yu Lee , Ho-Ming Li , Fang-Jing Wu

The intrinsic hardware imperfection of WiFi chipsets manifests itself in the transmitted signal, leading to a unique radiometric fingerprint. This fingerprint can be used as an additional means of authentication to enhance security. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Luis F. Abanto-Leon , Andreas Baeuml , Gek Hong , Sim , Matthias Hollick , Arash Asadi

In Internet of Things (IoT), radio frequency fingerprints (RFF) technology has been widely used for passive security authentication to identify the special emitter. However, few works took advantage of independent oscillator distortions at…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-12 Xiaofang Chen , Wenbo Xu , Yue Wang

This paper presents a method for continuous indoor-outdoor environment detection on mobile devices based solely on WiFi fingerprints. Detection of indoor outdoor switching is an important part of identifying a user's context, and it…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-05 Guy Shtar , Bracha Shapira , Lior Rokach

In indoor areas such as homes and offices, high throughput communication for multiple devices is quickly becoming a necessity. Even though an access point (AP) mounted with an omni-directional antenna can cover a whole room, it cannot…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Wei Sun

Channel state information (CSI) based fingerprinting for WIFI indoor localization has attracted lots of attention very recently.The frequency diverse and temporally stable CSI better represents the location dependent channel characteristics…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Zhihui Gao , Yunfan Gao , Sulei Wang , Dan Li , Yuedong Xu

The primary purpose of a fingerprint recognition system is to ensure a reliable and accurate user authentication, but the security of the recognition system itself can be jeopardized by spoof attacks. This study addresses the problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-14 Tarang Chugh , Kai Cao , Anil K. Jain

With the recent development of technology, wireless sensor networks (WSN) are becoming an important part of many applications. Knowing the exact location of each sensor in the network is very important issue. Therefore, the localization…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-06-27 Biljana Risteska Stojkoska , Vesna Kirandziska

Most of the developed localization solutions rely on RSSI fingerprinting. However, in the LoRa networks, due to the spreading factor (SF) in the network setting, traditional fingerprinting may lack representativeness of the radio map,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-12 Yaya Etiabi , Mohammed JOUHARI , Andreas Burg , El Mehdi Amhoud

Accurate indoor node localization is critical for practical Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) applications, as Global Positioning System (GPS) fails to provide reliable Line-of-Sight (LoS) conditions in most indoor environments. Real-world…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Ze Zhang , Qian Dong

Directly releasing those data raises privacy and liability (e.g., due to unauthorized distribution of such datasets) concerns since location data contain users' sensitive information, e.g., regular moving patterns and favorite spots. To…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Yuzhou Jiang , Emre Yilmaz , Erman Ayday

Hidden spy cameras have become a great privacy threat recently, as these low-cost, low-power, and small form-factor IoT devices can quietly monitor human activities in the indoor environment without generating any side-channel information.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Wenhao Chen , Wenyi Morty Zhang , Wei Sun , Dinesh Bharadia , Roshan Ayyalasomayajula

Location awareness in wireless networks may enable many applications such as emergency services, autonomous driving and geographic routing. Although there are many available positioning techniques, none of them is adapted to work with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-02 Vladimir Savic , Erik G. Larsson