Attending to Routers Aids Indoor Wireless Localization

Tahsin Fuad Hasan, Ayush Roy, Roshan Ayyalasomayajula, Vishnu Suresh Lokhande

Keywords: wireless localization, attention, indoor sensing

TL;DR: Incorporating attention mechanisms to weight information from different routers significantly improves machine learning-based Wi-Fi localization accuracy, outperforming benchmarks by over 30%.

Abstract: Modern machine learning-based wireless localization using Wi-Fi signals continues to face significant challenges in achieving groundbreaking performance across diverse environments. A major limitation is that most existing algorithms do not appropriately weight the information from different routers during aggregation, resulting in suboptimal convergence and reduced accuracy. Motivated by traditional weighted triangulation methods, this paper introduces the concept of attention to routers, ensuring that each router’s contribution is weighted differently when aggregating information from multiple routers for triangulation. We demonstrate, by incorporating attention layers into a standard machine learning localization architecture, that emphasizing the relevance of each router can substantially improve overall performance. We have also shown through evaluation over the open-sourced datasets and demonstrate that Attention to Routers outperforms the benchmark architecture by over 30% in accuracy.

Submission Number: 26