Title
Learning methods for RSSI-based geolocation: A comparative study
Abstract
In this paper, we investigate machine learning approaches addressing the problem of geolocation. First, we review some classical learning methods to build a radio map. These methods are split in two categories, which we refer to as likelihood-based methods and fingerprinting methods. Then, we provide a novel geolocation approach in each of these two categories. The first proposed technique relies on a semi-parametric Nadaraya–Watson (NW) estimator of the likelihood, followed by a maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimator of the object’s position. The second technique consists in learning a proper metric on the dataset, constructed by means of a Gradient boosting regressor: a k-nearest neighbor algorithm is then used to estimate the position. The proposed methods are compared on two data sets originated from Sigfox network, and an indoor dataset performed in a three-story building. Experiments show the interest of the proposed methods, both in terms of location estimation performance, and ability to build radio maps.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.pmcj.2020.101199
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Geolocation,Maximum likelihood,Metric learning,RSSI
Journal
67
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1574-1192
1
0.36
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kevin Elgui110.36
Pascal Bianchi210.36
François Portier310.36
Olivier Isson411.03