LLOCUS: learning-based localization using crowdsourcing

We present LLOCUS, a novel learning-based system that uses mobile crowdsourced RF sensing to estimate the location and power of unknown mobile transmitters in real time, while allowing unrestricted mobility of the crowdsourcing participants. We carefully identify and tackle several challenges in learning and localizing, based on RSS, in such a dynamic environment. We decouple the problem of localizing a transmitter with unknown transmit power into two problems, 1) predicting the power of a transmitter at an unknown location, and 2) localizing a transmitter with known transmit power. LLOCUS first estimates the power of the unknown transmitter and then scales the reported RSS values such that the unknown transmit power problem is transparent to the method of localization. We evaluate LLOCUS using three experiments in different indoor and outdoor environments. We find that LLOCUS reduces the localization error by 17-68% compared to several non-learning methods.

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