Title
Effective RSS sampling for forensic wireless localization
Abstract
In many applications such as wireless crime scene investigation, we want to use a single device moving along a route for accurate and efficient localization without the help of any positioning infrastructure or trained signal strength map. Our experiments show that in a complicated environment, such as building corridors and downtown areas, triangulation or trilateration cannot be used for accurate localization via single device. A simple approach, which is better and robust, is to use where the maximum RSS (received signal strength) is sensed as the target's location. The question is how to make sure the maximum RSS is received while moving. Our novel RSS sampling theory presented in this paper answers this question: if RSS samples can reconstruct a target transmitter's power distribution over space, the location corresponding to the peak of such power distribution is the target's location. We apply the Nyquist sampling theory to the RSS sampling process, and derive a mathematical model to determine the RSS sampling rate given the target's distance and its packet transmission rate. To validate our RSS sampling theory, we developed BotLoc, which is a programmable and self-coordinated robot armed with a wireless sniffer. We conducted extensive simulations and real-world experiments and the experimental results match the theory very well. A video of BotLoc is at http://youtu.be/FsWLrH8Nj50 .
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/978-3-642-39701-1_33
WASA
Keywords
Field
DocType
rss sample,rss sampling theory,rss sampling process,maximum rss,target transmitter,power distribution,rss sampling rate,nyquist sampling theory,forensic wireless localization,single device,novel rss sampling theory,effective rss sampling
Transmitter,Packet analyzer,Telecommunications,Wireless,Computer science,Sampling (signal processing),Real-time computing,Sampling (statistics),Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem,RSS,Trilateration,Distributed computing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
15
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yinjie Chen1334.32
Zhongli Liu27410.46
Xinwen Fu3105486.64
Wei Zhao43532404.01