Location Determination Papers

Please email other papers to moustafa@cs.umd.edu with a brief description of the paper and where it should be placed. Any suggestions are welcomed.

Surveys

Jeffrey Hightower and Gaetano Borriello, "Location Systems for Ubiquitous Computing," IEEE Computer, 2001.
Hiroaki Koshima and Joseph Hoshen, "Personal Locator Services Emerge," IEEE Spectrum, February 2000

Infrastructure RF-Based Systems

Moustafa Youssef, Adel Youssef, Chuck Rieger, Udaya Shankar, and Ashok Agrawala, "PinPoint: An Asynchronous Time-Based Location Determination System," Fourth International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2006 ), Uppsala, Sweden, June 19-22, 2006.
David Sanchez, Sergio Afonso, Elsa M. Macias, and Avaro Suarez " Devices Location in 802.11 Infrastructure Networks using Triangulation," The 2006 IAENG International Workshop on Wireless Networks, Hong Kong, 20-22 June 2006.
Hyuk Lim, Lu-chuan Kung, Robert Doverspike and Jennifer Hou, "Zero-Configuration, Robust Indoor Localization: Theory and Experimentation," Infocom 2006.
Yiming Ji, Saad Biaz, Santosh Pandey, and Prathima Agrawal, "ARIADNE: A Dynamic Indoor Signal Map Construction and Localization System," Fourth International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2006 ), Uppsala, Sweden, June 19-22, 2006.
P. Sungkhachan, P. Supnithi, P. Phasukkit, and M. Sangworasil, "A Cluster-based Geometric Approach to WLAN Location Determination Systems," Networks and Communication Systems - 2006.
Moustafa Youssef, and Ashok K. Agrawala, "The Horus Location Determination System," Journal of Wireless Networks (WINET).
Moustafa Youssef, and Ashok K. Agrawala, "The Horus WLAN Location Determination System," Third International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2005), Seattle, WA, USA, June 2005.
Yu-Chung Cheng, Yatin Chawathe, Anthony LaMarca and John Krumm, "Accuracy Characterization for Metropolitan-scale Wi-Fi Localization," Third International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2005), Seattle, WA, USA, June 2005.
Moustafa Youssef, Mohamed Abdallah, and Ashok Agrawala, "Multivariate Analysis for WLAN Location Determination Systems," The Second Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services (Mobiquitous 2005) July 17-21, 2005, San Diego, California.
Moustafa Youssef, and Ashok K. Agrawala, "Towards an Optimal Strategy For WLAN Location Determination Systems," In the International Journal of Modelling and Simulation, Vol. 27, Issue 1, 2007.
Moustafa Youssef, and Ashok K. Agrawala, "Location-Clustering Techniques for Energy-Efficient WLAN Location Determination Systems," In the International Journal of Computers and Applications, Vol. 28, Issue 3, 2006.
A. S. Krishnakumar and P. Krishnan, "On the Accuracy of Signal Strength-based Location Estimation Techniques," IEEE Infocom, Miami, FL, March 2005.
D. Maligan, E. Elnahrawy, R. Martin, W. Ju, P. Krishnan, and A.S. Krishnakumar, "Bayesian Indoor Positioning Systems," IEEE Infocom 2005, Miami, Florida, USA, 2005.
A. Günther and Ch. Hoene, "Measuring Round trip Times to Determine the Distance between WLAN Nodes", Technical Report TKN-04-016, Telecommunication Networks Group, Technische Universität Berlin, December 2004.
Kamol Kaemarungsi and Prashant Krishnamurthy, "Properties of Indoor Received Signal Strength for WLAN Location Fingerprinting," First Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services (MobiQuitous'04) .
E. Elnahrawy, X. Li, and R. Martin, "The Limits of Localization Using Signal Strength: A Comparative Study," In IEEE SECON 2004, Santa Clara, California, USA, 2004.
Moustafa Youssef, and Ashok K. Agrawala, "Continuous Space Estimation for WLAN Location Determination Systems," IEEE Thirteenth International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, Chicago, IL USA, October 11-13, 2004.
Moustafa Youssef, and Ashok K. Agrawala, "Handling Samples Correlation in the Horus System," IEEE Infocom, Hong Kong, March 2004.
P. Krishnan, A.S. Krishnakumar, Wen-Hua Ju, Colin Mallows, and Sachin Ganu, "A System for LEASE: Location Estimation Assisted by Stationary Emitters for Indoor RF Wireless Networks," IEEE Infocom, Hong Kong, March 2004.
Kamol Kaemarungsi, and Prashant Krishnamurthy, "Modeling of Indoor Positioning Systems Based on Location Fingerprinting ," IEEE Infocom, Hong Kong, March 2004.
Youngjune Gwon, Ravi Jain, and Toshiro Kawahara, "Robust Indoor Location Estimation of Stationary and Mobile Users," IEEE Infocom, Hong Kong, March 2004.
Moustafa Youssef and Ashok Agrawala, "On the Optimality of WLAN Location Determination Systems," Communication Networks and Distributed Systems Modeling and Simulation Conference, January 18-24 2004, San Diego, California.
S. Ganu, A.S.Krishnakumar, P.Krishnan, "Infrastructure-based Location Estimation in WLAN Networks," IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2004).
Zaruba GV, Huber M, Kamangar, FA, Chlamtac A, "Monte Carlo Sampling Based In-Home Location Tracking With Minimal RF Infrastructure Requirements", Prodeedings of the 47th GlobeCom Conference, Dallas, TX 2004 IEEE
Y. Wang, X. Jia, H.K. Lee, "An Indoors Wireless Positioning System Based on Wireless Local Area Network Infrastructure," The 6th International Symposium on Satellite Navigation (SatNav 2003), Melbourne, Australia, 22–25 July 2003.
Battiti, Roberto and Brunato, Mauro and Delai, Andrea, "Optimal Wireless Access Point Placement for Location-Dependent Services," Technical Report DIT-03-052, Informaticae Telecomunicazioni, University of Trento.
I. Guvenc, C. T. Abdallah, R. Jordan and O. Dedeoglu, "Enhancements to RSS Based Indoor Tracking Systems Using Kalman Filters," GSPx & International Signal Processing Conference, Dallas, TX, March 31-April 3, 2003.
Moustafa Youssef, Ashok Agrawala, A. Udaya Shankar, "WLAN Location Determination via Clustering and Probability Distributions," IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom) 2003, Fort Worth, Texas, March 23-26, 2003.
Moustafa Youssef, Ashok Agrawala, "Small-Scale Compensation for WLAN Location Determination Systems," IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2003 New Orleans, Louisiana, March 16-20, 2003.
Moustafa Youssef, Ashok Agrawala, "On the Optimality of WLAN Location Determination Systems," CS-TR 4459, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, March 2003.
Siddhartha Saha, Kamalika Chaudhuri, Dheeraj Sanghi, Pravin Bhagwat, "Location Determination of a Mobile Device Using IEEE 802.11b Access Point Signals," IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2003 New Orleans, Louisiana, March 16-20, 2003.
Saikat Ray, Rachanee Ungrangsi, Francesco de Pellegrini, Ari Trachtenberg and David Starobinski, "Robust Location Detection in Emergency Sensor Networks," IEEE Infocom 2003, San Francisco, pp. 1044-1053, March 2003.
Saikat Ray, David Starobinski, Ari Trachtenberg and Rachanee Ungrangsi, "Robust Location Detection with Sensor Networks,'' IEEE JSAC (Special Issue on Fundamental Performance Limits of Wireless Sensor Networks), in press.
Andrew Howard, Sajid Siddiqi, and Gaurav S Sukhatme, "An Experimental Study of Localization Using Wireless Ethernet", International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR'03), Lake Yamanaka, Japan.
Sajid Siddiqi, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, and Andrew Howard, "Experiments in Monte-Carlo Localization using WiFi Signal Strength," International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), Coimbra, Portugal, 2003.
Ping Tao, Algis Rudys, Andrew M. Ladd, Dan S. Wallach, "Wireless LAN location-sensing for security applications", Wireless Security Workshop, San Diego, CA, 2003.
Andrew M. Ladd, Kostas E. Bekris, Algis Rudys, Guillaume Marceau, Lydia E. Kavraki, and Dan S., "Robotics-Based Location Sensing using Wireless Ethernet," The Eighth ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MOBICOM) (Atlanta, GA), September 2002.
P. Prasithsangaree, P. Krishnamurthy, and P. K. Chrysanthis, "On Indoor Position Location With Wireless LANs ," The 13th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2002), Lisbon, Portugal, September 2002.
Arun Kishan, Michael Michael, Sahil Rihan, and Rahul Biswas, “Halibut: An Infrastructure for Wireless LAN Location-Based Services.”
Michael Wallbaum, "Wheremops: An Indoor Geolocation System", The 13th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications, Pavilhão Atlântico, Lisbon, Portugal, September 15-18, 2002.

T. Roos, P.Myllymäki, and H.Tirri, "A Statistical Modeling Approach to Location Estimation," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 1, No. 1, January-March 2002, pp. 59-69.
K. Pahlavan, X. Li, and J. Makela, "Indoor Geolocation Science and Technology", IEEE Communications Magazine, Feb. 2002.
Mauro Brunato, Csaba Kiss Kalló, "Transparent Location Fingerprinting for Wireless Services," in Proceedings of Med-Hoc-Net 2002.
Roberto Battiti, Thang Lee Nhat, Alessandro Villani, " Location-aware computing: a neural network model for determining location in wireless LANs," Technical Report DIT-02-0083, 2002.
Roberto Battiti, Mauro Brunato, Alessandro Villani, " Statistical Learning Theory for Location Fingerprinting in Wireless LANs," Technical Report DIT-02-0086, 2002.
Paul Castro, Patrick Chiu, Ted Kremenek, and Richard Muntz, "A Probabilistic Location Service for Wireless Network Environments," In Proceedings of Ubicomp 2001, pp. 18--24. Springer Verlag, September 2001.
Asim Smailagic, Daniel P. Siewiorek, Joshua Anhalt, David Kogan, and Yang Wang, “Location Sensing and Privacy in a Context Aware Computing Environment,“ Pervasive Computing, 2001.
P. Myllymaki, T. Roos, H. Tirri, P. Misikangas, J. Sievanen, "A Probabilistic Approach to WLAN User Location Estimation," The Third IEEE Workshop on Wireless LANs, 2001.
G. Shreve, D. Kell, "A Precision Location Network Using Ultra Wideband WLAN Radios," The Third IEEE Workshop on Wireless LANs, 2001.
Personnel, T. Kochanski, "A Portable Wideband System for Monitoring and Locating Firefighters and Other Emergency," The Third IEEE Workshop on Wireless LANs, 2001.
Paramvir Bahl and Venkata N. Padmanabhan, “RADAR: An In-Building RF-based User Location and Tracking System,” IEEE Infocom 2000, volume 2, pages 775-784, March 2000.
P. Bahl, V. N. Padmanabhan, and A. Balachandran, “Enhancements to the RADAR User Location and Tracking System,” Microsoft Research Technical Report: MSR-TR-00-12 (February 2000)
Asim Smailagic, Jason Small, and Daniel P. Siewiorek, “Determining User Location For Context Aware Computing Through the Use of a Wireless LAN infrastructure,” December 2000.
Paul Castro and Richard Muntz, "Managing Context for Smart Spaces," IEEE Personal Communications, October 2000.
Jay Werb, Colin Lanzl, "Designing a Positioning System for Finding People and Things Indoors," IEEE Spectrum, Vol. 35, No. 9., pp. 71-78, September 1998.
Thomas Christ, Philip Godwin, "A Prison Guard Duress Alarm Location System," Proc. IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology, October 1993.

Ad-hoc / Sensor RF-Based Systems

Aly El-Osery, Wael Abd-Almageed and Moustafa Youssef, "Calibration-Free RF-Based Localization Algorithm for Actuator/Sensor Networks using Particle Filters," IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, August, 2006.
Chen Wang and Li Xiao, "Locating Sensors in Concave Areas," Infocom 2006.
David Moore, John Leonard, Daniela Rus, Seth Teller, "Robust Distributed Network Localization with Noisy Range Measurements," Proc. 2nd ACM SenSys, 2004.
Xiang Ji, Hongyuan Zha, "Sensor Positioning in Wireless Ad-hoc Sensor Networks Using Multidimensional Scaling," Infocom 2004.
D. Niculescu and B. Nath, "Error characteristics of ad hoc positioning systems," In Proc. 5th ACM MobiHoc (Tokyo, May 2004).
Slobodan N. Simic and Shankar Sastry, "Localization in dense random sensor networks," IPSN, 2004.
Mihail L. Sichitiu and Vaidyanathan Ramadurai, "Localization of Wireless Sensor Networks with a Mobile Beacon" in Proceedings of the First IEEE Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems\ (MASS 2004), (Fort Lauderdale, FL), October 2004.
K. Whitehouse and F. Jiang and A. Woo and C. Karlof and D. Culler, "Sensor Field Localization: A Deployment and Empirical Analysis," Technical Report UCB//CSD-04-1349, Univ. of California, Berkeley, April 9 2004.
Tian He, Chengdu Huang, Brian M. Blum, John A. Stankovic, and Tarek F. Abdelzaher, "Range-Free Localization and Its Impact on Large Scale Sensor Networks," Mobicom 2003.
Kay Römer, "The Lighthouse Location System for Smart Dust," Proceedings of MobiSys 2003 (ACM/USENIX Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services), pp. 15-30, San Francisco, CA, USA, May 2003.
V. Ramadurai and M. L. Sichitiu, "Simulation-based Analysis of a Localization Algorithm for Wireless Ad-Hoc Sensor Networks," in Proc. of OPNETWORK 2003, (Washington, DC), Oct. 2003.
Vaidyanathan Ramadurai and M. L. Sichitiu, "Localization in wireless sensor networks: A probabilistic approach", in Proc. of the 2003 International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN 2003), Las Vegas, NV, June 2003, pp. 275-281.
Mihail L. Sichitiu, Vaidyanathan Ramadurai and Pushkin Peddabachagari, "Simple algorithm for outdoor localization of wireless sensor networks with inaccurate range measurements", Proc. of the 2003 International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN 2003), Las Vegas, NV, June 2003, pp. 300-305
Dragos Niculescu, Badri Nath, " Ad Hoc Positioning System (APS) Using AoA," INFOCOM 2003.
Chris Savarese, Jan Rabaey, Koen Langendoen, "Robust Positioning Algorithms for Distributed Ad-Hoc Wireless Sensor Networks," USENIX Technical Annual Conference, Monterey, CA, June 2002.
Neal Patwari, Alfred O. Hero, III, Matt Perkins, Neiyer S. Correal, Robert J. O'Dea, "Relative Location Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Special Issue on Signal Processing in Networks, Nov. 2002.
Leon Evers, Wouter Bach, Dennis Dam, Mischa Jonker, Hans Scholten, Paul Havinga, "An Iterative Quality-based Localization Algorithm for Ad Hoc Networks," Pervasive 2002, Zurich, Switserland, August 26-28, 2002.
Niveditha Sundaram and Parameswaran Ramanathan, "Connectivity based location estimation scheme for wireless ad hoc networks," IEEE Globecom 2002.
Slobodan N. Simic' and Shankar Sastry, "A Distributed Algorithm For Localization In Random Wireless Networks," Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California Berkeley, December 2001.
Andreas Savvides, Chih-Chieh Han, Mani B. Strivastava, "Dynamic Fine-Grained Localization in Ad-Hoc Networks of Sensors," Mobicom 2001.
Lance Doherty, Kristofer S. J. Pister, and Laurent El Ghaoui, "Convex position estimation in wireless sensor networks," In Proceedings of IEEE Infocom 2001.
S. Capkun, M. Hamdi, J. P. Hubaux, "GPS-Free Positioning in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks," Proceedings of HICSS, Hawaii, January 2001, pp. 10.
Scott Klemmer, Sarah Waterson, Kamin Whitehouse, "Towards a Location-based Context-aware Sensor Infrastructure," CS Division, EECS Department, University of California at Berkeley, December 2000.
Nirupama Bulusu, John Heidemann, Deborah Estrin, "GPS-less Low Cost Outdoor Localization For Very Small Devices," Technical report 00-729, Computer science department, University of Southern California, Apr. 2000.
Jeffrey Hightower, Roy Want, and Gaetano Borriello, "SpotON: An Indoor 3D Location Sensing Technology Based on RF Signal Strength," UW CSE 2000-02-02, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Feb. 2000.
T. D. Hodes, R. H. Katz, E. S. Schreiber, and L. Rowe, “Composable ad hoc mobile services for universal interaction,” MobiCom ’97 Proceedings, pp:1-12, Sep. 1997.

RF Propagation Models

Wireless Propagation Bibliography.
H. Hashemi, "The indoor radio propagation channel, " Proc. of IEEE, vol. 81, 1993, pp. 943-968.

GPS

P. Enge, and P. Misra, “Special issue on GPS: The Global Positioning System,” Proc. of the IEEE, pp. 3-172, Jan. 1999.

Ultrasonic-Based

S.Holm, "Airborne Ultrasound Data Communications: The Core of an Indoor Positioning System," in Proc IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Sep. 2005.
Nissanka B. Priyantha, Allen Miu, Hari Balakrishnan, and Seth Teller, “The Cricket Compass for Context-Aware Mobile Applications,”Proc. 7th ACM MobiCom, Rome, Italy, July 2001.
Nissanka B. Priyantha, Anit Chakraborty, Hari Balakrishnan, “The Cricket Location-Support system,” Proc. 6th ACM MobiCom, Boston, MA, August 2000.
Andy Harter, and Andy Hopper, “A Distributed Location System for the Active Office,” IEEE Network, Vol. 8, No. 1, January 1994.
A. Harter, A. Hopper, P. Steggles, A. Ward, and P. Webster, “The anatomy of a context-aware application,” In Proc. 5th ACM MobiCom Conf., Aug. 1999.
Andy Ward, Alan Jones, Andy Hopper, “A New Location Technique for the Active Office,” IEEE Personal Communications, Vol. 4, No. 5, October 1997, pp. 42-47.

Infrared/Optical-Based Systems

Julian Randall, Oliver Amft, Jürgen Bohn, Martin Burri, "LuxTrace - indoor positioning using building illumination," Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal, Springer, 2006.
Hongshen Ma and Joseph A. Paradiso, "The FindIT Flashlight: Responsive Tagging Based on Optically Triggered Microprocessor Wakeup," UbiComp 2002, Gothenburg, Sweden, Sept. 29-Oct. 1, 2002.
Ronald Azuma, “Tracking requirements for augmented reality,” Communications of the ACM, Jul. 1995, Vol. 36, No. 7.
Roy Want, Andy Hopper, Veronica Falcão, and Jonathan Gibbons, “The Active Badge Location System,” ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Vol. 10, No. 1, January 1992, pp 91-102.

Cellular-Based Systems

Wong, C.L.C., Lee, M.C., Chan, R.K.W., "GSM-based Mobile Positioning using WAP," Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Wireless Communication and Networking Conference, Chicago, 23-28 September 2000.
T. Liu, P. Bahl and I. Chlamtac, “Mobility Modeling, Location Tracking, and Trajectory Prediction in Cellular Networks," in the IEEE Journal on Special Areas in Communications, Special Issue on Wireless Access Broadband Networks, Vol. 16, No. 6, (August 1998):922-936.
Sirin Tekinay, “Special issue on Wireless Geolocation System and Services,” IEEE Communications Magazine, April 1998.

Magnetic Tracking

E. Prigge and J. How , "Signal Architecture for a Distributed Magnetic Local-Positioning System," The first IEEE international conference on sensors, Orlando, Florida, June 12-14, 2002.

Computer Vision Systems

Krumm J, Harris S, Meyers B, Brumitt B, Hale M and Shafer S., “Multi-camera multi-person tracking for Easy Living,” Proc. 3rd IEEE Int’l Workshop Visual Surveillance, IEEE Press, Piscataway, N.J., 2000, pp. 3-10.
Earl Joseph Charlson, Huber L. Graham, and Xinhua Zhuang, "Video Camera Method for Moving-Vehicle Location" IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 47, No. 2, May 1998, pp. 686-693.

Physical Proximity

Robert J. Orr and Gregory D. Abowd, “The Smart Floor: A Mechanism for Natural User Identification and Tracking,” Proceedings of the 2000 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2000), The Hague, Netherlands, April 1-6, 2000.

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