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Physical distance vs. signal distance: An analysis towards better location fingerprinting

  • Mu Zhou*
  • , Prashant Krishnamurthy
  • , Yubin Xu
  • , Lin Ma
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Harbin Institute of Technology
  • University of Pittsburgh

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Abstract

The laborious collection of location fingerprints, that could also potentially change with time, remains a hurdle towards the widespread deployment of indoor and campus area positioning using WiFi. In this paper, we present a preliminary analysis of the complicated relationship between distance in signal space, the physical distance and location errors towards better guidelines for fingerprint collection. We introduce the idea of entropy of location fingerprints and investigate the relationships between physical and signal distances, entropy, and expected errors with positioning using location fingerprinting. We present results with no access point and one access point and consider variations in the density of reference points and the standard deviation of signal strength to illustrate the issues.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProc.- 2011 IEEE International Conference on HPCC 2011 - 2011 IEEE International Workshop on FTDCS 2011 - Workshops of the 2011 Int. Conf. on UIC 2011- Workshops of the 2011 Int. Conf. ATC 2011
Pages977-982
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event13th IEEE International Workshop on FTDCS 2011, the 8th International Conference on ATC 2011, the 8th International Conference on UIC 2011 and the 13th IEEE International Conference on HPCC 2011 - Banff, AB, Canada
Duration: 2 Sep 20114 Sep 2011

Publication series

NameProc.- 2011 IEEE International Conference on HPCC 2011 - 2011 IEEE International Workshop on FTDCS 2011 -Workshops of the 2011 Int. Conf. on UIC 2011- Workshops of the 2011 Int. Conf. ATC 2011

Conference

Conference13th IEEE International Workshop on FTDCS 2011, the 8th International Conference on ATC 2011, the 8th International Conference on UIC 2011 and the 13th IEEE International Conference on HPCC 2011
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityBanff, AB
Period2/09/114/09/11

Keywords

  • Gaussian distribution
  • Location fingerprinting
  • accuracy
  • entropy
  • precision

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