Transfer Learning for Wireless Fingerprinting Localization Based on Optimal Transport

Wireless fingerprinting localization (FL) systems identify locations by building radio fingerprint maps, aiming to provide satisfactory location solutions for the complex environment. However, the radio map is easy to change, and the cost of building a new one is high. One research focus is to trans...

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Main Authors: Siqi Bai, Yongjie Luo, Qun Wan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-12-01
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/23/6994
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description Wireless fingerprinting localization (FL) systems identify locations by building radio fingerprint maps, aiming to provide satisfactory location solutions for the complex environment. However, the radio map is easy to change, and the cost of building a new one is high. One research focus is to transfer knowledge from the old radio maps to a new one. Feature-based transfer learning methods help by mapping the source fingerprint and the target fingerprint to a common hidden domain, then minimize the maximum mean difference (MMD) distance between the empirical distributions in the latent domain. In this paper, the optimal transport (OT)-based transfer learning is adopted to directly map the fingerprint from the source domain to the target domain by minimizing the Wasserstein distance so that the data distribution of the two domains can be better matched and the positioning performance in the target domain is improved. Two channel-models are used to simulate the transfer scenarios, and the public measured data test further verifies that the transfer learning based on OT has better accuracy and performance when the radio map changes in FL, indicating the importance of the method in this field.
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spelling doaj.art-fa90c807af9f45d49d2f061ce4fcb4092023-11-20T23:45:21ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202020-12-012023699410.3390/s20236994Transfer Learning for Wireless Fingerprinting Localization Based on Optimal TransportSiqi Bai0Yongjie Luo1Qun Wan2School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, No.2006, Xiyuan Ave, West Hi-Tech Zone, Chengdu 611731, ChinaSchool of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, No.2006, Xiyuan Ave, West Hi-Tech Zone, Chengdu 611731, ChinaSchool of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, No.2006, Xiyuan Ave, West Hi-Tech Zone, Chengdu 611731, ChinaWireless fingerprinting localization (FL) systems identify locations by building radio fingerprint maps, aiming to provide satisfactory location solutions for the complex environment. However, the radio map is easy to change, and the cost of building a new one is high. One research focus is to transfer knowledge from the old radio maps to a new one. Feature-based transfer learning methods help by mapping the source fingerprint and the target fingerprint to a common hidden domain, then minimize the maximum mean difference (MMD) distance between the empirical distributions in the latent domain. In this paper, the optimal transport (OT)-based transfer learning is adopted to directly map the fingerprint from the source domain to the target domain by minimizing the Wasserstein distance so that the data distribution of the two domains can be better matched and the positioning performance in the target domain is improved. Two channel-models are used to simulate the transfer scenarios, and the public measured data test further verifies that the transfer learning based on OT has better accuracy and performance when the radio map changes in FL, indicating the importance of the method in this field.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/23/6994fingerprinting localizationtransfer learningoptimal transportindoor positioningadaptive radio map
spellingShingle Siqi Bai
Yongjie Luo
Qun Wan
Transfer Learning for Wireless Fingerprinting Localization Based on Optimal Transport
Sensors
fingerprinting localization
transfer learning
optimal transport
indoor positioning
adaptive radio map
title Transfer Learning for Wireless Fingerprinting Localization Based on Optimal Transport
title_full Transfer Learning for Wireless Fingerprinting Localization Based on Optimal Transport
title_fullStr Transfer Learning for Wireless Fingerprinting Localization Based on Optimal Transport
title_full_unstemmed Transfer Learning for Wireless Fingerprinting Localization Based on Optimal Transport
title_short Transfer Learning for Wireless Fingerprinting Localization Based on Optimal Transport
title_sort transfer learning for wireless fingerprinting localization based on optimal transport
topic fingerprinting localization
transfer learning
optimal transport
indoor positioning
adaptive radio map
url https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/23/6994
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