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xD-Track: Leveraging Multi-Dimensional Information for Passive Wi-Fi Tracking

Xie, Y; Xiong, J; Li, M; Jamieson, K; (2016) xD-Track: Leveraging Multi-Dimensional Information for Passive Wi-Fi Tracking. In: Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Hot Topics in Wireless. (pp. pp. 39-43). ACM: New York, NY, USA. Green open access

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Abstract

We describe the design and implementation of xD-Track, the first practical Wi-Fi based device-free localization system that employs a simultaneous and joint estimation of time-of-flight, angle-of-arrival, angle-of-departure, and Doppler shift to fully characterize the wireless channel between a sender and receiver. Using this full characterization, xD-Track introduces novel methods to measure and isolate the signal path that reflects off a person of interest, allowing it to localize a human with just a single pair of access points, or a single client-access point pair. Searching the multiple dimensions to accomplish the above is highly computationally burdensome, so xD-Track introduces novel methods to prune computational requirements, making our approach suitable for real-time person tracking. We implement xD-Track on the WARP software-defined radio platform and evaluate in a cluttered office environment. Experiments tracking people moving indoors demonstrate a 230% angle-of-arrival accuracy improvement and a 98% end-to-end tracking accuracy improvement over the state of the art localization scheme SpotFi, adapted for device-free localization. The general platform we propose can be easily extended for other applications including gesture recognition and Wi-Fi imaging to significantly improve performance.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: xD-Track: Leveraging Multi-Dimensional Information for Passive Wi-Fi Tracking
Event: HotWireless
Location: New York, NY
Dates: 03 October 2016 - 03 October 2016
ISBN-13: 978-1-4503-4251-3
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1145/2980115.2980127
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2980115.2980127
Language: English
Additional information: © ACM, 2016. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Hot Topics in Wireless, Pages 39-43 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1145/2980115.2980127
Keywords: Networks; Network architectures;
UCL classification: UCL
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1527425
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