Paper Info
Title
VIRE: Virtual Reference Elimination for Active RFID-based Localization.
Abstract
RFID technologies are gaining much attention as they are attractive solutions to many applications. Localization based on active RFID technologies provides a much needed added-value to further expand the application domain. LANDMARC was the first attempt using active RFID for indoor location sensing with satisfactory results. However, the LANDMARC approach suffers from two drawbacks. First, it does not work well in a closed area with severe radio signal multi-path effects. Second, to further improve the localization accuracy, more reference tags are required which is costly and may trigger the RF interference phenomenon. The proposed VIRE approach can overcome the above drawbacks without any additional cost. Based on the concept of virtual reference tags, a proximity map is maintained by each reader. An elimination algorithm is used to eliminate those unlikely locations to reduce the estimation error. Our experimental results show that the new method consistently enhances the precision of indoor localization from 17 to 73 percent over the LANDMARC approach at different tag locations in different environments.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2013
AD HOC & SENSOR WIRELESS NETWORKS
RFID,Localization,Interpolation algorithms,Radio Signal Strength,Pervasive computing
Field
DocType
Volume
Computer science,Distributed computing
Journal
17
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3-4
1551-9899
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yi-Yang Zhao127417.50
Lionel M. Ni29462802.67