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Wireless Localization with Spatial-Temporal Robust Fingerprints

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Danyang Li
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Jingao Xu
杨铮 (Zheng Yang) *
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Chenshu Wu
李建波 (Jianbo Li)
N
Nicholas D. Lane
DOI:10.1145/3488281delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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Indoor localization has gained increasing attention in the era of the Internet of Things. Among various technologies, WiFi fingerprint-based localization has become a mainstream solution. However, RSS fingerprints suffer from critical drawbacks of spatial ambiguity and temporal instability that root in multipath effects and environmental dynamics, which degrade the performance of these systems and therefore impede their wide deployment in the real world. Pioneering works overcome these limitations at the costs of ubiquity as they mostly resort to additional information or extra user constraints. In this article, we present the design and implementation of ViViPlus, an indoor localization system purely based on WiFi fingerprints, which jointly mitigates spatial ambiguity and temporal instability and derives reliable performance without impairing the ubiquity. The key idea is to embrace the spatial awareness of RSS values in a novel form of RSS Spatial Gradient (RSG) matrix for enhanced WiFi fingerprints. We devise techniques for the representation, construction, and localization of the proposed fingerprint form and integrate them all in a practical system. Extensive experiments across 7 months in different environments demonstrate that ViViPlus significantly improves the accuracy in localization scenarios by about 30% to 50% compared with the state-of-the-art approaches.
Keywords:
Indoor localization
RSS fingerprint
spatial gradient

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ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks cover
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks
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tsinghua university
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Qingdao University
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