An efficient indoor navigation scheme using RFID-based delay tolerant network

Hao Ji, Lei Xie, Yafeng Yin, Sanglu Lu

Abstract: As a supporting technology for most pervasive applications, indoor localization and navigation has attracted extensive attention in recent years. Conventional solutions mainly leverage techniques like WiFi, cellular network etc. to effectively locate the user for indoor localization and navigation. In this paper, we investigate into the problem of indoor navigation by using the RFID-based delay tolerant network. Being different from the previous work, we aim to efficiently locate and navigate to a specified mobile user who is continuously moving within the indoor environment. We respectively propose a framework to schedule the tasks and manage the resources in the network and a navigation algorithm to locate and navigate to the moving target. Experiment results show that our solution can efficiently reduce the average searching time for indoor navigation.