Subcarrier selection for efficient CSI-based indoor localization

Abstract

Indoor positioning systems have received increasing attention for supporting location-based services. In recent Wi-Fi networks, the rich information in the physical layer, known as channel state information (CSI), has been recognized an effective positioning characteristic rather than traditional received signal strength. However, the positioning performance depends on a very high-dimensional CSI due to all pairs of transceiver antenna, which may incur over-fitting problems. This paper proposes a subcarrier-selection approach based on information theoretic learning to compensate for over-fitting problems in CSI-based localization systems. After equalizing the histogram of CSIs, the proposed algorithm computes the information gain of each subcarrier and forms a new low-dimensional subset of CSIs to reduce the complexity and to decrease possible over-fitting caused by redundant CSIs. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm through experiments. On-site experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach outperforms traditional feature selection schemes.