Το work with title Community RF sensing for source localization by Bletsas Aggelos, Alimpertis Emmanouil, Fasarakis-Chilliarnt Nikos is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Bibliographic Citation
E. Alimpertis, N. Fasarakis-Hilliard and A. Bletsas, "Community RF Sensing for Source Localization", IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 393 – 396, Aug. 2014. DOI: 10.1109/LWC.2014.2321741
https://doi.org/10.1109/LWC.2014.2321741
This work experimentally demonstrates RF source location estimation error on the order of 50 m, with received signal strength (RSS) measurements, from a network of smartphone users, within 800 m (or more) from the source. This work incorporates careful modeling of the time-varying source transmission power, source antenna directionality (even with a simple 4-parameter model) and different path loss exponents among the various source-user links. More importantly, a vast number of RSS measurements is collected and exploited through the automated community smartphone network. The proposed methodology could be extended to other wireless scenarios.