TY - GEN
T1 - Improvements to RADAR location classification
AU - Wu, Zhili
AU - Li, Chun Hung
AU - NG, Joseph K Y
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Location estimation has been a backbone for location-aware services as wireless networks and mobile devices are more pervasively available. By operating on the signal strength space, nearest neighbor methods like RADAR have proved to be simple yet effective for location estimation. It has been common to take locations as classes, and then to infer location classes based on signal strength measurements. Under such a location classification setting, this paper investigates in detail the k-nearest neighbor approach in RADAR, and demonstrates that considering more neighboring signal strength measurements usually cannot help. Instead the orientations in which the signal strength is taken should be more carefully treated. This paper also develops a refinement step for RADAR, by building nearest neighbor classifiers to further clarify several top location estimates by RADAR. At a very economic cost, our refinement step can significantly boost the accuracy.
AB - Location estimation has been a backbone for location-aware services as wireless networks and mobile devices are more pervasively available. By operating on the signal strength space, nearest neighbor methods like RADAR have proved to be simple yet effective for location estimation. It has been common to take locations as classes, and then to infer location classes based on signal strength measurements. Under such a location classification setting, this paper investigates in detail the k-nearest neighbor approach in RADAR, and demonstrates that considering more neighboring signal strength measurements usually cannot help. Instead the orientations in which the signal strength is taken should be more carefully treated. This paper also develops a refinement step for RADAR, by building nearest neighbor classifiers to further clarify several top location estimates by RADAR. At a very economic cost, our refinement step can significantly boost the accuracy.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=58049083376&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/WiCom.2008.1196
DO - 10.1109/WiCom.2008.1196
M3 - Conference proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:58049083376
SN - 9781424421084
T3 - 2008 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, WiCOM 2008
BT - 2008 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, WiCOM 2008
T2 - 2008 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, WiCOM 2008
Y2 - 12 October 2008 through 14 October 2008
ER -