Real-Time NLOS/LOS Identification for Smartphone-Based Indoor Positioning Systems Using WiFi RTT and RSS

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Abstract

The accuracy of smartphone-based positioning systems using WiFi usually suffers from ranging errors caused by non-line-of-sight (NLOS) conditions. Previous research usually exploits several distribution features from a long time series (hundreds of samples) of WiFi received signal strength (RSS) or WiFi round-trip time (RTT) to achieve a high identification accuracy. However, the long time series or large sample size attributes to high power and time consumption in data collection for both training and testing. This will also undoubtedly be detrimental to user experience as the waiting time for getting enough samples is quite long. Therefore, this paper proposes three new real-time NLOS/LOS identification methods for smartphone-based indoor positioning systems using WiFi RSS and RTT distance measurement (RDM). Based on our extensive analysis of RSS and RDM dispersion features, three machine learning algorithms were chosen and developed to separate the samples for NLOS/LOS conditions. Experiments show that our best method achieves a discrimination accuracy of over 96% with a sample size of 10. Considering the theoretically shortest WiFi ranging interval of 100ms of the RTT-enabled smartphones, our algorithm is able to provide the shortest latency of 1s to get the testing result among all of the state-of-art methods.
Original languageEnglish
Article number9565917
Pages (from-to)5199-5209
Number of pages11
JournalIEEE Sensors Journal
Volume22
Issue number6
Early online date8 Oct 2021
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Mar 2022

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • Wireless fidelity
  • Distance measurement
  • Smart phones
  • Feature extraction
  • Real-time systems
  • Testing
  • Dispersion

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