SBIR Phase I: On Generalizing Localization in Wireless Networks: Providing Low-Cost Solutions for Tracking and Security in Wireless LANs

SBIR 第一阶段：无线网络本地化的推广：为无线 LAN 中的跟踪和安全提供低成本解决方案

• 批准号: 0740629
• 负责人: Eiman Elnahrawy
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Kordinate LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-01-01 至 2009-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0740629&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Generalizing; Localization; Wireless

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will provide a scalable spatial positioning service for wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN). Unlike wired networks, wireless ones offer the opportunity to position any transmitting device in physical space. At the conclusion of the project, our single framework will demonstrate real-time spatial positioning and tracking of WLAN devices in challenging indoor environments with little or no prior set-up and configuration. Providing affordable localization will not only enable better WLAN management, but also will enable additional location-based services. In particular, the proposed research addresses the challenges of positioning accuracy, consistency, and tracking performance. The proposed research work will provide the foundation for a scalable, universal localization infrastructure. Such a foundation is necessary to integrate location information into wireless devices. The resulting impact of such a seamless integration can be likened to those obtained now that communication is partnered with nearly every computing device; in both cases many novel and exciting applications are enabled by these infrastructures. The long term goal is to enable the position of all wireless devices to be known using only the existing communication traffic. Such a universal, scalable localization system will enable a host of novel monitoring, tracking, routing and security services. For example, emergency response, inventory tracking and control, geometric network routing, and security applications would all benefit from widely available, low-cost localization.

该小型企业创新研究 (SBIR) 第一阶段项目将为无线局域网 (WLAN) 提供可扩展的空间定位服务。与有线网络不同，无线网络提供了在物理空间中定位任何传输设备的机会。在项目结束时，我们的单一框架将在具有挑战性的室内环境中演示 WLAN 设备的实时空间定位和跟踪，而无需事先进行任何设置和配置。提供经济实惠的本地化不仅可以实现更好的 WLAN 管理，还可以实现额外的基于位置的服务。特别是，所提出的研究解决了定位精度、一致性和跟踪性能的挑战。拟议的研究工作将为可扩展的通用本地化基础设施奠定基础。这样的基础是将位置信息集成到无线设备中所必需的。这种无缝集成所产生的影响可以与现在几乎所有计算设备都进行通信所获得的影响相提并论。在这两种情况下，这些基础设施都支持许多新颖且令人兴奋的应用程序。长期目标是仅使用现有的通信流量即可了解所有无线设备的位置。这种通用的、可扩展的定位系统将实现一系列新颖的监控、跟踪、路由和安全服务。例如，紧急响应、库存跟踪和控制、几何网络路由和安全应用程序都将受益于广泛可用的低成本本地化。