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In this paper, we propose rWiFiSLAM, an indoor localisation system based on WiFi ranging measurements. Indoor localisation techniques play an important role in mobile robots when they cannot access good quality GPS signals in indoor…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Bo Wei , Mingcen Gao , Chengwen Luo , Sen Wang , Jin Zhang

This paper explores the data cleaning challenges that arise in using WiFi connectivity data to locate users to semantic indoor locations such as buildings, regions, rooms. WiFi connectivity data consists of sporadic connections between…

The proliferation of wireless localization technologies provides a promising future for serving human beings in indoor scenarios. Their applications include real-time tracking, activity recognition, health care, navigation, emergence…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-03-10 Da Zhang , Feng Xia , Zhuo Yang , Lin Yao , Wenhong Zhao

Massive MIMO is bringing significant performance improvements in the context of outdoor macrocells, such as favourable propagation conditions, spatially confined communication, high antenna gains to overcome pathloss, and good angular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-26 Andrea P. Guevara , Sibren De Bast , Sofie Pollin

With the advances in virtual and augmented reality, gaming applications, and entertainment, certain indoor scenarios will require vastly higher capacity than what can be delivered by 5G. In this paper, we focus on massive MIMO for indoor…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Unnikrishnan Kunnath Ganesan , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

Tactical wireless networks play a vital role in ensuring reliable connectivity in scenarios where conventional telecommunications infrastructure is unavailable or damaged, such as areas impacted by natural disasters. These networks are…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Wissem Ahmed Zaid , Alain Hertz

With the ongoing development of Indoor Location-Based Services, the location information of users in indoor environments has been a challenging issue in recent years. Due to the widespread use of WiFi networks, WiFi fingerprinting has…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Amin Kargar-Barzi , Ebrahim Farahmand , Nooshin Taheri Chatrudi , Ali Mahani , Muhammad Shafique

Human localization is gaining momentum in security, healthcare, logistics, and smart spaces applications. While global navigation systems are unreliable indoor, device-free (a.k.a. passive) localization methods that exploit human-induced…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Federica Fieramosca , Anastasia Maiolli , Alexander H. Paulus , Stefano Savazzi , Michele D'Amico

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

Increasing sources of sensor measurements and prior knowledge have become available for indoor localization on smartphones. How to effectively utilize these sources for enhancing localization accuracy is an important yet challenging…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-27 Kaiqing Zhang , Hong Hu , Wenhan Dai , Yuan Shen , Moe Z. Win

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 localization is the process of determining the location of a person or object inside a building. Potential usage of indoor localization includes navigation, personalization, safety and security, and asset tracking. Commonly used…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-14 Rahul Vishwakarma , Rucha Bhalchandra Joshi , Subhankar Mishra

In wireless networks, radio-map based locating techniques are commonly used to cope the complex fading feature of radio signal, in which a radio-map is built by calibrating received signal strength (RSS) signatures at training locations in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Xiongfeng Geng , Yongcai Wang , Haoran Feng , Zhoufeng Chen

Classification between different activities in an indoor environment using wireless signals is an emerging technology for various applications, including intrusion detection, patient care, and smart home. Researchers have shown different…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-10 B. R. Manoj , Guoda Tian , Sara Gunnarsson , Fredrik Tufvesson , Erik G. Larsson

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used as aerial wireless base stations when cellular networks are not operational due to natural disasters. They can also be used to supplement the ground base station in order to provide better…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-26 Hazim Shakhatreh , Abdallah Khreishah , Issa Khalil

The industry is satisfying the increasing demand for wireless bandwidth by densely deploying a large number of access points which are centrally managed, e.g. enterprise WiFi networks deployed in university campuses, companies, airports…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-05-02 Antonios Michaloliakos , Ryan Rogalin , Yonglong Zhang , Konstantinos Psounis , Giuseppe Caire

Indoor localization opens the path to potentially transformative applications. Although many indoor localization methods have been proposed over the years, they remain too impractical for widespread deployment in the real world. In this…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Emerson Sie , Enguang Fan , Federico Cifuentes-Urtubey , Deepak Vasisht

WiFi fingerprint-based indoor localization has been widely studied, but most existing approaches focus on absolute positioning and rely on dense coordinate annotations, which are costly to obtain at scale. In this paper, we study a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Tzu-Ti Wei , Po-Cheng Chen , Yu-Chee Tseng , Jen-Jee Chen

The democratization of wireless networks combined to the emergence of mobile devices increasingly autonomous and efficient lead to new services. Positioning services become overcrowded. Accuracy is the main quality criteria in positioning.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-09-15 Soumaya Zirari , Philippe Canalda , Francois Spies

This paper presents a new method for imaging, localizing, and tracking motion behind walls in real-time. The method takes advantage of the motion-induced variance of received signal strength measurements made in a wireless peer-to-peer…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2009-10-02 Joey Wilson , Neal Patwari