Towards location-awareness in next generation wireless networks : a new approach based on channel state information

Location-awareness in next generation wireless networks will be a key enabler for numerous emerging applications. Recently, a novel approach to localization based on soft information (SI), exploiting all positional information inherent in measurement and contextual data, has been proposed. This thesis further develops SI-based localization by establishing a new approach relying on channel state information (CSI) measurements. In particular, we design an efficient joint message-passing (MP) localization algorithm, which consists of two layers: the transformation layer and the estimation layer. The transformation layer extracts SI of the channel impulse response (CIR) from CSI measurements using a sparsity promoting prior model, which addresses the difficulty of unknown number of multipath in estimating the CIR. The estimation layer infers node positions based on the SI of the CIR using a delay-origin uncertainty model, which describes the conditional distribution of the delays in the CIR given node positions. Simulation results using QuaDriGa channel simulator show that our localization algorithm achieves decimeter-level localization accuracy for both Wi-Fi and mmWave signals, which outperforms conventional algorithms.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2020

Author dc:creator

• Yu, Zehao.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Moe Z. Win.

• Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Statement dc:rights

• MIT theses may be protected by copyright. Please reuse MIT thesis content according to the MIT Libraries Permissions Policy, which is available through the URL provided.

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127117

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/127117