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Location knowledge in indoor environment using Indoor Positioning Systems (IPS) has become very useful and popular in recent years. Indoor wireless localization suffers from severe multi-path fading and non-line-of-sight conditions. This…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Gang Wang , Zuxuan Zhang

Accurately and efficiently addressing the multiple source localization (MSL) problem in urban environments, particularly designing a general method adaptable to an arbitrary number of sources, plays a crucial role in various fields such as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-19 Qilu Zhang , Hongying Tang , Wen Chen , Ziyi Song , Jiang Wang

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has emerged as a promising technology to enhance indoor wireless communication and sensing performance. However, the construction of reliable received signal strength (RSS)-based fingerprint…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Xin Cheng , Yu He , Menglu Li , Ruoguang Li , Feng Shu , Guangjie Han

Among many techniques for indoor localization, fingerprinting has been shown to provide a higher accuracy compared to the alternative techniques. Fingerprinting techniques require an initial calibration phase during which site surveyors…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-06 Hamada Rizk , Moustafa Youssef

In this article, we present a collection of radio map datasets in dense urban setting, which we generated and made publicly available. The datasets include simulated pathloss/received signal strength (RSS) and time of arrival (ToA) radio…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Çağkan Yapar , Ron Levie , Gitta Kutyniok , Giuseppe Caire

Contrasting to advances in street/outdoor navigation, wall mounted maps and signs continue to be the primary reference indoor navigation in hospitals, malls, museums, etc. The proliferation of mobile devices and the growing demand for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-05-23 Sagar V. Ramani , Yagnik N. Tank

Indoor position technology has become one of the research highlights in the Internet of Things (IoT), but there is still a lack of universal, low-cost, and high-precision solutions. This paper conducts research on indoor position technology…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Chunyi Zhang , Zongwei Li , Xiaoqi Li

Leveraging received signal strength (RSS) measurements for indoor localization is highly attractive due to their inherent availability in ubiquitous wireless protocols. However, prevailing RSS-based methods often depend on complex…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Luis F. Abanto-Leon , Muhammad Salman , Lismer Andres Caceres-Najarro

Due to the noisy indoor radio propagation channel, Radio Frequency (RF)-based location determination systems usually require a tedious calibration phase to construct an RF fingerprint of the area of interest. This fingerprint varies with…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Rizanne Elbakly , Moustafa Youssef

Indoor Wi-Fi positioning remains a challenging problem due to the high sensitivity of radio signals to environmental dynamics, channel propagation characteristics, and hardware heterogeneity. Conventional fingerprinting and model-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Nayan Sanjay Bhatia , Pranay Kocheta , Russell Elliott , Harikrishna S. Kuttivelil , Katia Obraczka

Global Navigation Satellite Systems typically perform poorly in urban environments, where the likelihood of line-of-sight conditions between devices and satellites is low. Therefore, alternative location methods are required to achieve good…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Çağkan Yapar , Ron Levie , Gitta Kutyniok , Giuseppe Caire

Accurate outdoor localization in Non-Line-of-Sight (NLoS) environments remains a critical challenge for wireless communication and sensing systems. Existing methods, including positioning based on the Global Navigation Satellite System…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 Jiajie Xu , Yifan Guo , Xiucheng Wang , Nan Cheng , Tingting Yang

This paper deals with the problem of localization in a cellular network in a dense urban scenario. Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) typically perform poorly in urban environments, where the likelihood of line-of-sight conditions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Çağkan Yapar , Ron Levie , Gitta Kutyniok , Giuseppe Caire

Machine learning (ML) solutions to indoor localization problems have become popular in recent years due to high positioning accuracy and low cost of implementation. This paper proposes a novel local nonparametric approach for solving…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-22 Nora Agah , Brian Evans , Xiao Meng , Haiqing Xu

The accuracy of indoor wireless localization systems can be substantially enhanced by map-awareness, i.e., by the knowledge of the map of the environment in which localization signals are acquired. In fact, this knowledge can be exploited…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Francesco Montorsi , Fabrizio Pancaldi , Giorgio M. Vitetta

Indoor localization systems are most commonly based on Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) measurements of either WiFi or Bluetooth-Low-Energy (BLE) beacons. In such systems, the two most common techniques are trilateration and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Ramdoot Pydipaty , Johnu George , Krishna Selvaraju , Amit Saha

The widespread mobile devices facilitated the emergence of many new applications and services. Among them are location-based services (LBS) that provide services based on user's location. Several techniques have been presented to enable LBS…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-30 Peyman Yazdanian , Vahid Pourahmadi

The localization technology is important for the development of indoor location-based services (LBS). The radio frequency (RF) fingerprint-based localization is one of the most promising approaches. However, it is challenging to apply this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-12-06 Yu Zhang , Xiao-Yang Liu

Localization systems intended for home use by people with mild cognitive impairment should comply with specific requirements. They should provide the users with sub-meter accuracy allowing for analyzing patient's movement trajectory and be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-05 Marcin Kolakowski

Radio maps (RMs) serve as environment-aware electromagnetic (EM) representations that connect scenario geometry and material properties to the spatial distribution of signal strength, enabling localization without costly in-situ…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Xiucheng Wang , Tingwei Yuan , Yang Cao , Nan Cheng , Ruijin Sun , Weihua Zhuang