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Localization plays a key role for safe operation of UAVs enabling beyond visual line of sight applications. Compared to GPS based localization, cellular networks can reduce the positioning error and cost since cellular connectivity is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-12 Irshad A. Meer , Mustafa Ozger , Cicek Cavdar

On the off-the-shelf navigational assistance devices, the localization precision is limited to the signal error of global navigation satellite system (GNSS). During travelling outdoors, the inaccurately localization perplexes visually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Ruiqi Cheng , Kaiwei Wang , Longqing Lin , Kailun Yang

Predicting pathloss by considering the physical environment is crucial for effective wireless network planning. Traditional methods, such as ray tracing and model-based approaches, often face challenges due to high computational complexity…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-14 Yuan Gao , Tao Wen , Wenjing Xie , Jianbo Du , Yong Zeng , Dusit Niyato , Shugong Xu

In urban areas, dense buildings frequently block and reflect global positioning system (GPS) signals, resulting in the reception of a few visible satellites with many multipath signals. This is a significant problem that results in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Sanghyun Kim , Jiwon Seo

This paper proposes a novel positioning technique suitable for use in mobile robots in urban environments in which large global navigation satellite system (GNSS) positioning errors occur because of multipath signals. During GNSS…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Taro Suzuki

Recent years have witnessed fast growth in outdoor location-based services. While GPS is considered a ubiquitous localization system, it is not supported by low-end phones, requires direct line of sight to the satellites, and can drain the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Ahmed Shokry , Marwan Torki , Moustafa Youssef

Radio maps (RMs), which provide location-based pathloss estimations, are fundamental to enabling proactive, environment-aware communication in 6G networks. However, existing deep learning-based methods for RM construction often model…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Honggang Jia , Nan Cheng , Xiucheng Wang

Location-aware applications play an increasingly critical role in everyday life. However, satellite-based localization (e.g., GPS) has limited accuracy and can be unusable in dense urban areas and indoors. We introduce an image-based global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Linguang Zhang , Adam Finkelstein , Szymon Rusinkiewicz

Radio Map Prediction (RMP), aiming at estimating coverage of radio wave, has been widely recognized as an enabling technology for improving radio spectrum efficiency. However, fast and reliable radio map prediction can be very challenging…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-18 Yu Tian , Shuai Yuan , Weisheng Chen , Naijin Liu

In the Wireless Localization Matching Problem (WLMP) the challenge is to match pieces of equipment with a set of candidate locations based on wireless signal measurements taken by the pieces of equipment. This challenge is complicated by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-15 Amin Ghafourian , Orestis Georgiou , Edmund Barter , Thilo Gross

One of the major issues in Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks (WBASNs) is efficient localization. There are various techniques for indoor and outdoor environments to locate a person. This study evaluating and compares performance of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-07-09 Obaid ur Rehman , Nadeem Javaid , Ayesha Bibi , Zahoor Ali Khan

The global averaged civilian positioning accuracy is still at meter level for all existing Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs), and the performance is even worse in urban areas. At lower altitudes than satellites, high altitude…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-03 Hongzhao Zheng , Mohamed Atia , Halim Yanikomeroglu

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

In recent years, smartphones have become prevalent. Much attention is being paid to developing and making use of mobile applications that require position information. The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a very popular localization…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-12-25 Haifeng Liu , Feng Xia , Zhuo Yang , Yang Cao

Range-based localization is ubiquitous: global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) power mobile phone-based navigation, and autonomous mobile robots can use range measurements from a variety of modalities including sonar, radar, and even…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Ethan Sequeira , Hussein Saad , Stephen Kelly , Matthew Giamou

Global navigation satellite system (GNSS) interference poses a serious threat to reliable positioning, especially in indoor and multipath-rich environments where source localization is highly challenging. In this paper, we formulate GNSS…

In urban environments, where line-of-sight signals from GNSS satellites are frequently blocked by high-rise objects, GNSS receivers are subject to large errors in measuring satellite ranges. Heuristic methods are commonly used to estimate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Amir Jalalirad , Davide Belli , Bence Major , Songwon Jee , Himanshu Shah , Will Morrison

WiFi technology has been used pervasively in fine-grained indoor localization, gesture recognition, and adaptive communication. Achieving better performance in these tasks generally boils down to differentiating Line-Of-Sight (LOS) from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Sahib Singh Dhanjal , Maani Ghaffari , Ryan M. Eustice

Global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs) are essential in providing localization and navigation services to most of the world due to their superior coverage. However, due to high pathloss and inevitable atmospheric effect, the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-07 Hongzhao Zheng , Mohamed Atia , Halim Yanikomeroglu

While both outdoor and indoor localization methods are flourishing, how to properly marry them to offer pervasive localizability in urban areas remains open. Recently proposals on indoor-outdoor detection make the first step towards such an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Feng Li , Jin Wang , Jun Luo