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A comparative survey of WLAN location fingerprinting methods
Abstract
The term ldquolocation fingerprintingrdquo covers a wide variety of methods for determining receiver position using databases of radio signal strength measurements from different sources. In this work we present a survey of location fingerprinting methods, including deterministic and probabilistic methods for static estimation, as well as filtering methods based on Bayesian filter and Kalman filter. We present a unified mathematical formulation of radio map database and location estimation, point out the equivalence of some methods from the literature, and present some new variants. A set of tests in an indoor positioning scenario using WLAN signal strengths is performed to determine the influence of different calibration and location method parameters. In the tests, the probabilistic method with the kernel function approximation of signal strength histograms was the best static positioning method. Moreover, all filters improved the results significantly over the static methods.
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- Authors
- Honkavirta, V., Perala, T., Ali-Loytty, S., & Piche, R.
- Venue
- 2009 6th Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Published
- 2009-03
- Pages
- 243-251
- OpenAlex
- W1981373725
- Cited by
- 522
- References
- 15
- FWCI
- 39.36
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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