Energy saving strategies in WiFi indoor localization

  • Authors:
  • Azin Neishaboori;Khaled Harras

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, Doha, Qatar;School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, Doha, Qatar

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 16th ACM international conference on Modeling, analysis & simulation of wireless and mobile systems
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Despite extensive research on WiFi indoor localization, very few solutions are widely deployed, largely due to their high energy consumption. In this paper, we propose several energy saving strategies with varying localization accuracy and energy consumption tradeoffs in WiFi indoor localization. Instead of localizing every single device, these strategies exploit short range low-power communication technologies, to localize clusters of mobile devices, via a representative cluster head. We propose various cluster head selection algorithms that offer different trade offs between localization accuracy and power consumption. The outcome of this work provides insights into the effectiveness and cost of a particular strategy depending on the needs of the application requiring varying localization service levels.