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WiFi-based indoor localization has received extensive attentions from both academia and industry. However, the overhead of constructing and maintaining the WiFi fingerprint map remains a bottleneck for the wide-deployment of WiFi-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-28 Shilong Dai , Liang He , Xuebo Zhang

In this paper, a positioning technique based on Time Difference of Arrival (TDoA) measurements is analyzed. The proposed approach is designed to consent range and position estimation, using ultrasound transmissions of a stream of chirp…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-10-20 Alessio De Angelis , Antonio Moschitta , Antonella Comuniello

Time-of-flight, i.e., the time incurred by a signal to travel from transmitter to receiver, is perhaps the most intuitive way to measure distances using wireless signals. It is used in major positioning systems such as GPS, RADAR, and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Deepak Vasisht , Swarun Kumar , Dina Katabi

We have explored our own innovative work about the design & development of internal location-identification system for mobile devices based on integration of RFID and wireless technology. The function of our system is based on strategically…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-11-15 Kapil N. Vhatkar , G. P. Bhole

In this paper, we focus on the localization of a passive source from time difference of arrival (TDOA) measurements. TDOA values are computed with respect to pairs of fixed sensors that are required to be accurately time-synchronized. This…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Marguerite Delcourt , Jean-Yves Le Boudec

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

An increasingly important requirement for many novel applications is sensing the positions of people, equipment, etc. GPS technology has proven itself as a successfull technology for positioning in outdoor environments but indoor no…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-04-28 Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard

Indoor positioning is an enabling technology for home, office, and industrial network users because it provides numerous information and communication technology (ICT) and Internet of things (IoT) functionalities such as indoor navigation,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Katarzyna Kosek-Szott , Szymon Szott , Wojciech Ciezobka , Maksymilian Wojnar , Krzysztof Rusek , Jonathan Segev

In recent years, there has been an increasing number of information technologies utilized in buildings to advance the idea of "smart buildings". Among various potential techniques, the use of Wi-Fi based indoor positioning allows to locate…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-02-25 Qian Huang , Yuanzhi Zhang , Zhenhao Ge , Chao Lu

Geographical location solutions have a wide diversity of applications, ranging from emergency services to access to tourist and entertainment services. GPS (Global Positioning System) is the most widely used system for outdoor areas. Since…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-02-07 Juan Toloza , Nelson Acosta , Carlos Kornuta

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

Wi-Fi localization and tracking face accuracy limitations dictated by antenna count (for angle-of-arrival methods) and frequency bandwidth (for time-of-arrival methods). This paper presents mD-Track a device-free Wi-Fi tracking system…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Yaxiong Xie , Jie Xiong , Mo Li , Kyle Jamieson

Device-free human tracking is an essential ingredient for ubiquitous wireless sensing. Recent passive WiFi tracking systems face the challenges of inaccurate separation of dynamic human components and time-consuming estimation of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Zhongqin Wang , J. Andrew Zhang , Min Xu , Y. Jay Guo

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

Outdoor positioning systems based on the Global Navigation Satellite System have several shortcomings that have deemed their use for indoor positioning impractical. Location fingerprinting, which utilizes machine learning, has emerged as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Fahad Alhomayani , Mohammad H. Mahoor

Inferring the location of a mobile device in an indoor setting is an open problem of utmost significance. A leading approach that does not require the deployment of expensive infrastructure is fingerprinting, where a classifier is trained…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-08 Erez Peterfreund , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis , Ariel Jaffe

Locating the persons moving through an environment without the necessity of them being equipped with special devices has become vital for many applications including security, IoT, healthcare, etc. Existing device-free indoor localization…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Mohamed Mohsen , Hamada Rizk , Hirozumi Yamaguch , Moustafa Youssef

We address the indoor localization problem, where the goal is to predict user's trajectory from the data collected by their smartphone, using inertial sensors such as accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer, as well as other environment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Leonid Antsfeld , Boris Chidlovskii , Emilio Sansano-Sansano

Due to the growing area of ubiquitous mobile applications, indoor localization of smartphones has become an interesting research topic. Most of the current indoor localization systems rely on intensive site survey to achieve high accuracy.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Jose Luis V. Carrera , Zhongliang Zhao , Torsten Braun , Haiyong Luo , Fang Zhao

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