Synchronicity: Pushing the envelope of fine-grained localization with distributed MIMO

Jie Xiong, Kyle Jamieson, Karthikeyan Sundaresan

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Abstract

Indoor localization of mobile devices and tags has received much attention recently, with encouraging fine-grained localization results available with enough line-of-sight coverage and enough hardware infrastructure. Synchronicity is a location system that aims to push the envelope of highly-accurate localization systems further in both dimensions, requiring less line-of-sight and less infrastructure. With Distributed MIMO network of wireless LAN access points (APs) as a starting point, we leverage the time synchronization that such a network affords to localize with time-difference-of-arrival information at the APs. We contribute novel super-resolution signal processing algorithms and reflection path elimination schemes, yielding superior results even in non-line-of-sight scenarios (with one to two walls separating client and APs). We implement and briefly evaluate Synchronicity on the WARP hardware radio platform using standard 20 MHz wireless LAN channels.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationHotWireless 2014 - Proceedings of the 1st ACM MobiCom Workshop on Hot Topics in Wireless
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages43-47
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781450330763
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event1st ACM MobiCom Workshop on Hot Topics in Wireless, HotWireless 2014 - Maui, United States
Duration: Sep 11 2014Sep 11 2014

Publication series

NameHotWireless 2014 - Proceedings of the 1st ACM MobiCom Workshop on Hot Topics in Wireless

Other

Other1st ACM MobiCom Workshop on Hot Topics in Wireless, HotWireless 2014
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityMaui
Period9/11/149/11/14

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Information Systems
  • Computer Networks and Communications

Keywords

  • Distributed Mimo
  • Location tracking
  • Synchronization
  • TDoA

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