Performance Comparison of WiFi and UWB Fingerprinting Indoor Positioning Systems
Ultra-wideband (UWB) and WiFi technologies have been widely proposed for the implementation of accurate and scalable indoor positioning systems (IPSs). Among different approaches, fingerprinting appears particularly suitable for WiFi IPSs and was also proposed for UWB IPSs, in order to cope with the...
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| author | Giuseppe Caso Mai T. P. Le Luca De Nardis Maria-Gabriella Di Benedetto |
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| description | Ultra-wideband (UWB) and WiFi technologies have been widely proposed for the implementation of accurate and scalable indoor positioning systems (IPSs). Among different approaches, fingerprinting appears particularly suitable for WiFi IPSs and was also proposed for UWB IPSs, in order to cope with the decrease in accuracy of time of arrival (ToA)-based lateration schemes in the case of severe multipath and non-line-of-sight (NLoS) environments. However, so far, the two technologies have been analyzed under very different assumptions, and no fair performance comparison has been carried out. This paper fills this gap by comparing UWB- and WiFi-based fingerprinting under similar settings and scenarios by computer simulations. Two different k-nearest neighbor (kNN) algorithms are considered in the comparison: a traditional fixed k algorithm, and a novel dynamic k algorithm capable of operating on fingerprints composed of multiple location-dependent features extracted from the channel impulse response (CIR), typically made available by UWB hardware. The results show that UWB and WiFi technologies lead to a similar accuracy when a traditional algorithm using a single feature is adopted; when used in combination with the proposed dynamic k algorithm operating on channel energy and delay spread, UWB outperforms WiFi, providing higher accuracy and more degrees of freedom in the design of the system architecture. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-feaf80b3a6c34247a67795b52a2eb0df2022-12-21T23:59:56ZengMDPI AGTechnologies2227-70802018-01-01611410.3390/technologies6010014technologies6010014Performance Comparison of WiFi and UWB Fingerprinting Indoor Positioning SystemsGiuseppe Caso0Mai T. P. Le1Luca De Nardis2Maria-Gabriella Di Benedetto3Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications (DIET), Sapienza University of Rome, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, ItalyDepartment of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications (DIET), Sapienza University of Rome, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, ItalyDepartment of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications (DIET), Sapienza University of Rome, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, ItalyDepartment of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications (DIET), Sapienza University of Rome, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, ItalyUltra-wideband (UWB) and WiFi technologies have been widely proposed for the implementation of accurate and scalable indoor positioning systems (IPSs). Among different approaches, fingerprinting appears particularly suitable for WiFi IPSs and was also proposed for UWB IPSs, in order to cope with the decrease in accuracy of time of arrival (ToA)-based lateration schemes in the case of severe multipath and non-line-of-sight (NLoS) environments. However, so far, the two technologies have been analyzed under very different assumptions, and no fair performance comparison has been carried out. This paper fills this gap by comparing UWB- and WiFi-based fingerprinting under similar settings and scenarios by computer simulations. Two different k-nearest neighbor (kNN) algorithms are considered in the comparison: a traditional fixed k algorithm, and a novel dynamic k algorithm capable of operating on fingerprints composed of multiple location-dependent features extracted from the channel impulse response (CIR), typically made available by UWB hardware. The results show that UWB and WiFi technologies lead to a similar accuracy when a traditional algorithm using a single feature is adopted; when used in combination with the proposed dynamic k algorithm operating on channel energy and delay spread, UWB outperforms WiFi, providing higher accuracy and more degrees of freedom in the design of the system architecture.http://www.mdpi.com/2227-7080/6/1/14UWBWiFiindoor positioning |
| spellingShingle | Giuseppe Caso Mai T. P. Le Luca De Nardis Maria-Gabriella Di Benedetto Performance Comparison of WiFi and UWB Fingerprinting Indoor Positioning Systems Technologies UWB WiFi indoor positioning |
| title | Performance Comparison of WiFi and UWB Fingerprinting Indoor Positioning Systems |
| title_full | Performance Comparison of WiFi and UWB Fingerprinting Indoor Positioning Systems |
| title_fullStr | Performance Comparison of WiFi and UWB Fingerprinting Indoor Positioning Systems |
| title_full_unstemmed | Performance Comparison of WiFi and UWB Fingerprinting Indoor Positioning Systems |
| title_short | Performance Comparison of WiFi and UWB Fingerprinting Indoor Positioning Systems |
| title_sort | performance comparison of wifi and uwb fingerprinting indoor positioning systems |
| topic | UWB WiFi indoor positioning |
| url | http://www.mdpi.com/2227-7080/6/1/14 |
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