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Modeling of indoor positioning systems based on location fingerprinting

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This paper develops the framework for analyzing a simple positioning system that employs the Euclidean distance between a sample signal vector and the location fingerprints of an area stored in a database and analyzes the effect of the number of access points that are visible and radio propagation parameters on the performance of the positioning system.
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In previous years, positioning systems for indoor areas using the existing wireless local area network infrastructure have been suggested. Such systems make use of location fingerprinting rather than time or direction of arrival techniques for determining the location of mobile stations. While experimental results related to such positioning systems have been presented, there is a lack of analytical models that can be used as a framework for designing and deploying the positioning systems. In this paper, we present an analytical model for analyzing such positioning systems. We develop the framework for analyzing a simple positioning system that employs the Euclidean distance between a sample signal vector and the location fingerprints of an area stored in a database. We analyze the effect of the number of access points that are visible and radio propagation parameters on the performance of the positioning system and provide some preliminary guidelines on its design.

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Properties of indoor received signal strength for WLAN location fingerprinting

TL;DR: The properties of the received signal strength reported by IEEE 802.11b wireless network interface cards are investigated to understand the underlying features of location fingerprints and the performance of an indoor positioning system in terms of its precision is compared.
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Received-Signal-Strength-Based Indoor Positioning Using Compressive Sensing

TL;DR: Experimental results indicate that the proposed RSS-based indoor positioning system leads to substantial improvement on localization accuracy and complexity over the widely used traditional fingerprinting methods.
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Kernel-Based Positioning in Wireless Local Area Networks

TL;DR: It is shown that, due to the variability of RSS features over space, a spatially localized positioning method leads to improved positioning results and a kernelized distance calculation algorithm for comparing RSS observations to RSS training records is presented.
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