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Optimized KNN/IFCM Algorithm for Efficient Indoor Location  

Lee, Jang-Jae (Dept. of Computer Science and Statistics, Chosun University)
Song, Lick-Ho (Dept. of Electrical Engineering, KAIST)
Kim, Jong-Hwa (Dept. of Computer Engineering, Mokpo National University)
Lee, Seong-Ro (Dept. of Information and Electronics Engineering, Mokpo National University)
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Abstract
For any pattern matching based algorithm in WLAN environment, the characteristics of signal to noise ratio(SNR) to multiple access points(APs) are utilized to establish database in the training phase, and in the estimation phase, the actual two dimensional coordinates of mobile unit(MU) are estimated based on the comparison between the new recorded SNR and fingerprints stored in database. As fingerprinting method, k-nearest neighbor(KNN) has been widely applied for indoor location in wireless location area networks(WLAN), but its performance is sensitive to number of neighbors k and positions of reference points(RPs). So intuitive fuzzy c-means(IFCM) clustering algorithm is applied to improve KNN, which is the KNN/IFCM hybrid algorithm presented in this paper. In the proposed algorithm, through KNN, k RPs are firstly chosen as the data samples of IFCM based on signal to noise ratio(SNR). Then, the k RPs are classified into different clusters through IFCM based on SNR. Experimental results indicate that the proposed KNN/IFCM hybrid algorithm generally outperforms KNN, KNN/FCM, KNN/PFCM algorithm when the locations error is less than 2m.
Keywords
WLAN; Fingerprinting; k-Nearest Neighbor; Intuitive Fuzzy C-Means;
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