Decimeter-Level Localization with a Single WiFi Access Point
Deepak Vasisht, MIT CSAIL; Swarun Kumar, Carnegie Mellon University; Dina Katabi, MIT CSAIL
We present Chronos, a system that enables a single WiFi access point to localize clients to within tens of centimeters. Such a system can bring indoor positioning to homes and small businesses which typically have a single access point.
The key enabler underlying Chronos is a novel algorithm that can compute sub-nanosecond time-of-flight using commodity WiFi cards. By multiplying the time-of- flight with the speed of light, a MIMO access point computes the distance between each of its antennas and the client, hence localizing it. Our implementation on commodity WiFi cards demonstrates that Chronos’s accuracy is comparable to state-of-the-art localization systems, which use four or five access points.
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author = {Deepak Vasisht and Swarun Kumar and Dina Katabi},
title = {{Decimeter-Level} Localization with a Single {WiFi} Access Point},
booktitle = {13th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 16)},
year = {2016},
isbn = {978-1-931971-29-4},
address = {Santa Clara, CA},
pages = {165--178},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi16/technical-sessions/presentation/vasisht},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = mar
}
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