term paper template.docVIP

CSI Metric Preprocess for Indoor Localization FirstName LastName BUID: xxxxx Department of Computer Science, SUNY at Binghamton Binghamton, NY 13902 xxx@binghamton.edu Abstract—A great number of researches have been done to build a precise indoor positioning system which is increasingly needed by a wide range of applications in wireless/mobile computing. Recently, WLAN with a rich set of installed wireless infrastructures enables indoor localization in the area of interest. Most of previous researches utilize signal strength indicator (RSSI) as a main metric. However, the distance estimation based on it is easily affected by the temporal and spatial variance due to the multi-path effect, which contributes to most of the estimation errors in current systems. The paper, a term paper for EE/CPE 556, studies latest work on the channel state information (CSI) based indoor positioning system. Moreover, we further study the CSI metric preprocess work for the indoor localization. Keywords—indoor localization; channel state information; RSSI; physical layer Introduction Localization is one of the essential modules of many mobile wireless applications. Although Global Positioning System (GPS) works extremely well for the open air localization, it does not perform effectively in indoor environments due to the disability of GPS signals to penetrate in-building materials. Therefore, precise indoor localization is still a critical missing component and has been gaining growing interest from a wide range of applications, e.g., location detection of assets in a warehouse, patient tracking inside the building of the hospital, and emergency personnel positioning in a disaster area. A great number of researches have been done to address the indoor localization problem. Many range-based localization protocols compute positions based on received signal strength indicator (RSSI), which represents the received power level at the receiver. According to propagation loss model [1], rec