Workshop on Advances in Network Localization and Navigation

Monday, 8 June 2015 • 09:00 – 18:00

WS-15: Advances in Network Localization and Navigation (ANLN)

Organizer: Klaus Witrisal (Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria)

Indoor localization, tracking, and navigation have been gaining relevance due to steadily expanding range of enabling devices and technologies, as well as the necessity for seamless solutions for location-based services. A current trend in the design of indoor localization systems is to use standard, low-cost, and already deployed technologies, including, for example, inertial measurement units, sonar, laser, IR, visual light communications, or radiofrequency signals. All this entails that the latest challenge is not only to design specialized sensors for these tasks but to design and implement methods exploiting the cooperation of the already available technologies. The goal of the workshop is to solicit the development of new positioning algorithms based on short-range wireless communications as well as new position-aware procedures to enhance the efficiency of communication networks. This workshop will bring together academic and industrial researchers to identify and discuss technical challenges and recent results related to short-range positioning.

Welcome Session

Industry Keynote: From Space Receivers to Integrity on the Ground - Navigation Signal Processing at Airbus Defence and Space

The talk's first part will illustrate the diversity of applications of positioning and navigation by reviewing selected projects on the topic that are currently on-going in the Space Systems Division of Airbus Defence and Space. For example, we will show the peculiarities needed to make receivers for Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) work aboard satellites and the architecture of the future generation of the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS). Additionally, non-satellite-based systems for local positioning and guidance will be showcased, such as DeckFinder, a system for automated landings of aerial vehicles on ships' flight decks as well as I-Lite, an indoor localization system.The talk's second part will address selected technical aspects and challenges, as well as innovative solutions, for tracking of modern GNSS signals, robust navigation, and providing integrity for land users. We will also explain how the requirements from multiple projects govern the design and implementation of the Positioning and Integrity Performance Evaluator (PIPE), a tool which is not only being used for algorithm development for new GNSS software and hardware receivers but which also facilitates end-to-end simulations.

Fundamental Limits 1

Tracking and positioning using phase information from estimated multi-path components: Meifang Zhu, Joao Vieira, Yubin Kuang and Kalle Åström (Lund University, Sweden); Andreas Molisch (University of Southern California, USA); Fredrik Tufvesson (Lund University, Sweden)

pp. 712-717
Robust Power Allocation for OFDM Wireless Network Localization: Arash Shahmansoori (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain); Gonzalo Seco-Granados (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain); Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

pp. 718-723

Cooperative Localization and Testbeds

Cooperative hybrid localization using Gaussian processes and belief propagation: Samuel Van de Velde (Ghent University, Belgium); Gundeep Arora (Indian Institute of Technology, India); Luigi Vallozzi, Hendrik Rogier and Heidi Steendam (Ghent University, Belgium)

pp. 785-790
Frequentist Inference for WiFi Fingerprinting 3D Indoor Positioning: Giuseppe Caso (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy); Luca De Nardis (University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy); Maria Gabriella Di Benedetto (University of Rome La Sapienza Italy, Italy)

pp. 809-814
On the RSS biases in WLAN-based indoor positioning: Elina Laitinen, Jukka Talvitie and Elena Simona Lohan (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)

pp. 797-802
Localization Method for Device-to-Device through User Movement: The Dang Huynh (Alcatel-Lucent France, France); Chung Shue Chen (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, France); Siu-Wai Ho (University of South Australia, Australia)

pp. 821-826
Web-based Platform for Evaluation of RF-based Indoor Localization Algorithms: Filip Lemic (Technische Universität Berlin (TUB), Germany); Vlado Handziski (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany); Niklas Johan Wirström (SICS, Sweden); Tom Van Haute (Ghent University - iMinds, Germany); Eli De Poorter (Ghent University & IBBT, Belgium); Thiemo Voigt (Swedish Institute of Computer Science & Uppsala University, Sweden); Adam Wolisz (TUB, Germany)

pp. 834-840
Nonparametric Belief Propagation based Positioning via Distributed Network Formation: Xiaopeng Li, Hui Gao and Tiejun Lv (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Xin Su (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)

pp. 847-852

Robust Localization

Joint Scheduling and Localization in UWB Networks: Gabriel E. Garcia (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden); Wuhua Hu and Wee Peng Tay (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Henk Wymeersch (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

pp. 724-729
Bayesian Ranging for Radio Localization with and without Line-of-Sight Detection: Lishuai Jing (Aalborg University & Aalborg Universitet, Denmark); Troels Pedersen and Bernard Henri Fleury (Aalborg University, Denmark)

pp. 730-735
An Area State-Aided Indoor Localization Algorithm and Its Implementation: Kaiqing Zhang and Hong Hu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China); Wenhan Dai (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA); Yuan Shen (Tsinghua University & Massachusetts Institute of Technology, P.R. China); Moe Win (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

pp. 736-741
Sensor Localization in NLOS Environments with Anchor Uncertainty and Unknown Clock Parameters: Siamak Yousefi (McGill University, Ireland); Reza Monir Vaghefi (Virginia Tech, USA); Xiao-Wen Chang and Benoit Champagne (McGill University, Canada); Michael Buehrer (Virginia Tech, USA)

pp. 742-747

Academic Keynote: Privacy in Networks of Interacting Agents

Network localization and navigation often involve distributed agents, or sensors, who must exchange information in order to make inferences about their environments. Though such agents can clearly benefit from exchanging information, they may also wish to maintain a degree of privacy in that information exchange. Such situations give rise to a notion of competitive privacy, which can be explored through a combination of information theory and game theory. In particular, information theory can be used to characterize the tradeoff between privacy of data and the usefulness of that data for an individual agent, while game theory can be used to model the interactions between multiple agents each of whom is mindful of that tradeoff. These ideas will be explored in this talk in a general setting, and then particularly in the context of data exchange for distributed state estimation, in which specific solutions can be obtained. Other potential applications areas and open issues will also be discussed.

SLAM and Map-Awareness

Bayesian Multi-Target Localization using Blocking Statistics in Multipath Environments: Sundar Aditya and Andreas Molisch (University of Southern California, USA); Hatim Behairy (King Abdulaziz City For Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)

pp. 748-753
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping using Multipath Channel Information: Erik Leitinger, Paul Meissner, Manuel Lafer and Klaus Witrisal (Graz University of Technology, Austria)

pp. 754-760
A Combined GP-State Space Method for Efficient Crowd Mapping: Davide Dardari, Alberto Arpino, Francesco Guidi and Roberto Naldi (University of Bologna, Italy)

pp. 761-765
Reduced-Complexity Techniques for Indoor Map-Aware Localization: Francesco Montorsi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy); Fabrizio Pancaldi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia & Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni (CNIT), Italy); Giorgio M. Vitetta (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)

pp. 766-772
An Empirical Ranging Error Model and Efficient Cooperative Positioning for Indoor Applications: Shenghong Li and Mark Hedley (CSIRO, Australia); Iain B. Collings (Macquarie University, Australia)

pp. 773-778

Cooperative Localization and Testbeds

Cooperative hybrid localization using Gaussian processes and belief propagation: Samuel Van de Velde (Ghent University, Belgium); Gundeep Arora (Indian Institute of Technology, India); Luigi Vallozzi, Hendrik Rogier and Heidi Steendam (Ghent University, Belgium)

pp. 785-790
On the RSS biases in WLAN-based indoor positioning: Elina Laitinen, Jukka Talvitie and Elena Simona Lohan (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)

pp. 797-802
Frequentist Inference for WiFi Fingerprinting 3D Indoor Positioning: Giuseppe Caso (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy); Luca De Nardis (University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy); Maria Gabriella Di Benedetto (University of Rome La Sapienza Italy, Italy)

pp. 809-814
Localization Method for Device-to-Device through User Movement: The Dang Huynh (Alcatel-Lucent France, France); Chung Shue Chen (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, France); Siu-Wai Ho (University of South Australia, Australia)

pp. 821-826
Web-based Platform for Evaluation of RF-based Indoor Localization Algorithms: Filip Lemic (Technische Universität Berlin (TUB), Germany); Vlado Handziski (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany); Niklas Johan Wirström (SICS, Sweden); Tom Van Haute (Ghent University - iMinds, Germany); Eli De Poorter (Ghent University & IBBT, Belgium); Thiemo Voigt (Swedish Institute of Computer Science & Uppsala University, Sweden); Adam Wolisz (TUB, Germany)

pp. 834-840
Nonparametric Belief Propagation based Positioning via Distributed Network Formation: Xiaopeng Li, Hui Gao and Tiejun Lv (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, P.R. China); Xin Su (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)

pp. 847-852

Fundamental Limits 2

Position and Orientation Error Bound for Wideband Massive Antenna Arrays: Anna Guerra (CNIT - University of Bologna, Italy); Francesco Guidi and Davide Dardari (University of Bologna, Italy)

pp. 853-858
Joint Power and Spectrum Optimization in Wireless Localization Networks: Chuan Qin, Liyuan Song and Tingting Zhang (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen Graduate School, P.R. China); Yuan Shen (Tsinghua University & Massachusetts Institute of Technology, P.R. China); Andreas Molisch (University of Southern California, USA); Qinyu Zhang (Shenzhen Graduate School, Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R. China)

pp. 859-864
Monostatic Indoor Localization: Bounds and Limits: Gregor Dumphart (ETH Zurich, Switzerland); Erik Leitinger, Paul Meissner and Klaus Witrisal (Graz University of Technology, Austria)

pp. 865-870
Localization Performance in Cellular Networks: Javier Schloemann, Harpreet S Dhillon and Michael Buehrer (Virginia Tech, USA)

pp. 871-876
Optimal Jamming of Wireless Localization Systems: Sinan Gezici (Bilkent University, Turkey); Mohammad Reza Gholami (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden); Suat Bayram (Turgut Ozal University, Turkey); Magnus Jansson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

pp. 877-882