TR2019-138

Fingerprinting-Based Indoor Localization with Commercial MMWave WiFi - Part II: Spatial Beam SNRs


Abstract:

Existing fingerprint-based indoor localization uses either fine-grained channel state information (CSI) from the physical layer or coarse-grained received signal strength indicator (RSSI) measurements from the MAC layer. In this paper, we propose to use an intermediate channel measurement — spatial beam signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) that are inherently available during the beam training phase as defined in the IEEE 802.11ad standard — to construct the feature space for location-and orientation-dependent fingerprinting database. We build a 60-GHz experimental platform consisting of three access points and one client using commercial-off-the-shelf routers and collect realworld beam SNR measurements in an office environment during regular office hours. Both position/orientation classification and coordinate estimation are considered using classic machine learning approaches. Comprehensive performance evaluation using real-world beam SNRs demonstrates that the classification accuracy is 99.8% if the location is only interested, while the accuracy is 98.6% for simultaneous position-and-orientations classification. Direct coordinate estimation gives an average root-mean-square error of 17.52 cm and 95% of all coordinate estimates are less than 26.90 cm away from corresponding true locations. This concept directly applies to other mmWave band (e.g., 5G) devices where beam training is also required.

 

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  •  Wang, P., Koike-Akino, T., Orlik, P.V., "Fingerprinting-Based Indoor Localization with Commercial MMWave WiFi: NLOS Propagation", IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), DOI: 10.1109/​GLOBECOM42002.2020.9348144, December 2020.
    BibTeX TR2020-159 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Wang2020dec,
    • author = {Wang, Pu and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Orlik, Philip V.},
    • title = {Fingerprinting-Based Indoor Localization with Commercial MMWave WiFi: NLOS Propagation},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)},
    • year = 2020,
    • month = dec,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/GLOBECOM42002.2020.9348144},
    • issn = {2576-6813},
    • isbn = {978-1-7281-8298-8},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2020-159}
    • }
  •  Koike-Akino, T., Wang, P., Pajovic, M., Sun, H., Orlik, P.V., "Fingerprinting-Based Indoor Localization with Commercial MMWave WiFi: A Deep Learning Approach", IEEE Access, DOI: 10.1109/​ACCESS.2020.2991129, April 2020.
    BibTeX TR2020-054 PDF
    • @article{Koike-Akino2020apr,
    • author = {Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Wang, Pu and Pajovic, Milutin and Sun, Haijian and Orlik, Philip V.},
    • title = {Fingerprinting-Based Indoor Localization with Commercial MMWave WiFi: A Deep Learning Approach},
    • journal = {IEEE Access},
    • year = 2020,
    • month = apr,
    • doi = {10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2991129},
    • issn = {2169-3536},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2020-054}
    • }
  •  Pajovic, M., Wang, P., Koike-Akino, T., Sun, H., Orlik, P.V., "Fingerprinting-Based Indoor Localization with Commercial MMWave WiFi - Part I: RSS and Beam Indices", IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), DOI: 10.1109/​GLOBECOM38437.2019.9013466, December 2019.
    BibTeX TR2019-141 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Pajovic2019dec,
    • author = {Pajovic, Milutin and Wang, Pu and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Sun, Haijian and Orlik, Philip V.},
    • title = {Fingerprinting-Based Indoor Localization with Commercial MMWave WiFi - Part I: RSS and Beam Indices},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)},
    • year = 2019,
    • month = dec,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/GLOBECOM38437.2019.9013466},
    • issn = {2576-6813},
    • isbn = {978-1-7281-0962-6},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-141}
    • }