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Wearable and IoT devices requiring positioning and localisation services grow in number exponentially every year. This rapid growth also produces millions of data entries that need to be pre-processed prior to being used in any indoor…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-29 Darwin Quezada-Gaibor , Lucie Klus , Joaquín Torres-Sospedra , Elena Simona Lohan , Jari Nurmi , Carlos Granell , Joaquín Huerta

In recent years WiFi became the primary source of information to locate a person or device indoor. Collecting RSSI values as reference measurements with known positions, known as WiFi fingerprinting, is commonly used in various positioning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Kahraman Kostas , Rabia Yasa Kostas , Francisco Zampella , Firas Alsehly

In recent years, the use of WiFi fingerprints for indoor positioning has grown in popularity, largely due to the widespread availability of WiFi and the proliferation of mobile communication devices. However, many existing methods for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Mingxin Zhang , Zipei Fan , Ryosuke Shibasaki , Xuan Song

In this paper, a comprehensive survey of the pioneer as well as the state of-the-art localization and tracking methods in the wireless sensor networks is presented. Localization is mostly applicable for the static sensor nodes, whereas,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Sudhir Kumar , Rajesh M. Hegde

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

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

With the recent development in mobile computing devices and as the ubiquitous deployment of access points(APs) of Wireless Local Area Networks(WLANs), WLAN based indoor localization systems(WILSs) are of mounting concentration and are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-13 Caifa Zhou , Lin Ma , Xuezhi Tan

Precise indoor localization is an increasingly demanding requirement for various emerging applications, like Virtual/Augmented reality and personalized advertising. Current indoor environments are equipped with pluralities of WiFi access…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-21 Chenlu Xiang , Shunqing Zhang , Shugong Xu , Xiaojing Chen , George C. Alexandropoulos , Vincent K. N. Lau

In recent years, Channel State Information (CSI), recognized for its fine-grained spatial characteristics, has attracted increasing attention in WiFi-based indoor localization. However, despite its potential, CSI-based approaches have yet…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Tianyu Zhang , Dongheng Zhang , Ruixu Geng , Xuecheng Xie , Shuai Yang , Yan Chen

We propose a method for predicting the location of user equipment (UE) using wireless fingerprints in dynamic indoor non-line-of-sight (NLoS) environments. In particular, our method copes with the challenges posed by the drift, birth, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-28 Rafail Ismayilov , Renato L. G. Cavalcante , Slawomir Stanczak

Widespread adoption of indoor positioning systems based on WiFi fingerprinting is at present hindered by the large efforts required for measurements collection during the offline phase. Two approaches were recently proposed to address such…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Giuseppe Caso , Luca De Nardis , Filip Lemic , Vlado Handziski , Adam Wolisz , Maria-Gabriella Di Benedetto

This paper presents a framework addressing the challenge of global localization in autonomous mobile robotics by integrating LiDAR-based descriptors and Wi-Fi fingerprinting in a pre-mapped environment. This is motivated by the increasing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Nikolaos Stathoulopoulos , Emanuele Pagliari , Luca Davoli , George Nikolakopoulos

K-Neares Neighbors (KNN) and its variant weighted KNN (WKNN) have been explored for years in both academy and industry to provide stable and reliable performance in WiFi-based indoor positioning systems. Such algorithms estimate the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-03 Yinhuan Dong , Francisco Zampella , Firas Alsehly

WiFi fingerprint-based indoor localization schemes deliver highly accurate location data by matching the received signal strength indicator (RSSI) with an offline database using machine learning (ML) or deep learning (DL) models. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Fariha Tanjim Shifat , Sayma Sarwar Ela , Mosarrat Jahan

To promote the practicality of deep learning-based localization, existing studies aim to address the issue of scenario dependence through meta-learning. However, these studies primarily focus on variations in environmental layouts while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Qiqi Xiao , Ziqi Ye , Yinghui He , Jianwei Liu , Guanding Yu

Although WiFi fingerprint-based indoor localization is attractive, its accuracy remains a primary challenge especially in mobile environments. Existing approaches either appeal to physical layer information or rely on extra wireless signals…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-09-02 Chenshu Wu , Zheng Yang , Zimu Zhou , Yunhao Liu , Mingyan Liu

Accurate and robust global localization is essential to robotics applications. We propose a novel global localization method that employs the map traversability as a hidden observation. The resulting map-corrected odometry localization is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Cheng Peng , David Weikersdorfer

Recent trends have accelerated the development of spatial applications on mobile devices and robots. These include navigation, augmented reality, human-robot interaction, and others. A key enabling technology for such applications is the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Zakieh S. Hashemifar , Charuvahan Adhivarahan , Anand Balakrishnan , Karthik Dantu

Internet of Things (IoT) device localization is fundamental to smart home functionalities, including indoor navigation and tracking of individuals. Traditional localization relies on relative methods utilizing the positions of anchors…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Yan Li , Jie Yang , Shang-Ling Shih , Wan-Ting Shih , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin

Many localization algorithms and systems have been developed by means of wireless sensor networks for both indoor and outdoor environments. To achieve higher localization accuracy, extra hardware equipments are utilized by most of the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Tao Huang , Zhikui Chen , Feng Xia , Cheng Jin , Liang Li