Title
Enhancing smartphone indoor localization via opportunistic sensing
Abstract
Using a mobile phone for fine-grained indoor localization remains an open problem. Low-complexity approaches without infrastructure could not achieve accurate and reliable results due to various restrictions. Accurate solutions relying on dense anchor nodes are inconvenient and cumbersome in deployment. The anchor blockage problem would further reduce the effective coverages. In this paper, we investigate the problems associated with improving indoor localization of a mobile phone via opportunistic anchor sensing, a new sensing paradigm leveraging multiple anchors without minimum number or constellation requirement. One key motivation is that the location results could be improved by exploring more data types rather than deploying more anchor nodes. To enable this high scalability and accuracy design, we leverage low-coupling hybrid ranging by our low cost anchor nodes with centimeter-level relative distance estimation. Activity pattern extracted in local smartphone is utilized for accurate displacement and direction estimation. Finer localization resolution could be achieved with sufficient anchor access. We introduce the delay-constraint robust semidefinite programming in trilateration calculation with the potential of centimeter-level location resolution. We conduct extensive experiments in various scenarios. Compared with other approaches, opportunistic sensing could improve the location accuracy, scalability as well as robustness under various anchor accessibilities.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/SAHCN.2016.7732988
2016 13th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON)
Keywords
Field
DocType
smartphone indoor localization,mobile phone,fine-grained indoor localization,dense anchor nodes,anchor blockage problem,opportunistic anchor sensing,sensing paradigm,low-coupling hybrid ranging,low cost anchor nodes,centimeter-level relative distance estimation,activity pattern,delay-constraint robust semidefinite programming,trilateration calculation
Software deployment,Computer science,Robustness (computer science),Ranging,Data type,Mobile phone,Semidefinite programming,Scalability,Distributed computing,Trilateration
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5090-1733-1
1
0.35
References 
Authors
12
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kaikai Liu119020.37
di wu2875.84
Xiaolin Li324317.57