Computer Science and Engineering, Department of
Date of this Version
Summer 7-12-2012
Abstract
Satellite-based Global Positioning Systems (GPS) have enabled a variety of location-based services such as navigation systems, and become increasingly popular and important in our everyday life. However, GPS does not work well in indoor environments where walls, floors and other construction objects greatly attenuate satellite signals.
In this paper, we propose an Indoor Positioning System (IPS) based on widely deployed indoor WiFi systems. Our system uses not only the Received Signal Strength (RSS) values measured at the current location but also the previous location information to determine the current location of a mobile user. We have conducted a large number of experiments in the Schorr Center of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and our experiment results show that our proposed system outperforms all other WiFi-based RSS IPSs in the comparison, and is 5% more accurate on average than others.
Advisors: Lisong Xu and Zhigang Shen
Comments
A THESIS Presented to the Faculty of The Graduate College at the University of Nebraska In Partial Fulfillment of Requirements For the Degree of Master of Science, Major: Computer Science, Under the Supervision of Professor Lisong Xu and Professor Zhigang Shen. Lincoln, Nebraska: July, 2012
Copyright (c) 2012 Landu Jiang