Analysis of Radio Localiser Networks under Distribution Shift

Maximilian Arnold, Mohammed Alloulah

Keywords: RF localisation, RF positioning, robustness, benchmarking, domain shift, localisation, positioning

Abstract: Deploying radio frequency (RF) localisation systems invariably entails non-trivial effort, particularly for the latest learning-based breeds. There has been little prior work on characterising and comparing how learnt localiser networks can be deployed in the field under real-world RF distribution shifts. In this paper, we present RadioBench: a suite of 8 learnt localiser nets from the state-of-the-art to study and benchmark their real-world deployability, utilising five novel industry-grade datasets. We train 10k models to analyse the inner workings of these learnt localiser nets and uncover their differing behaviours across three performance axes: (i) learning, (ii) proneness to distribution shift, and (iii) localisation. We use insights gained from this analysis to recommend best practices for the deployability of learning-based RF localisation under practical constraints.

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TL;DR: Comparing and benchmarking SOTA RF localisation methods