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Accuracy characterization of cell tower localization

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Jie Yang,

Alexander Varshavsky,

Hongbo Liu,

Yingying Chen,

Marco GruteserAuthors Info & Claims

UbiComp '10: Proceedings of the 12th ACM international conference on Ubiquitous computing

Pages 223 - 226

https://doi.org/10.1145/1864349.1864384

Published: 26 September 2010 Publication History

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Cell tower triangulation is a popular technique for determining the location of a mobile device. However, cell tower triangulation methods require the knowledge of the actual locations of cell towers. Because the locations of cell towers are not publicly available, these methods often need to use estimated tower locations obtained through wardriving. This paper provides the first large scale study of the accuracy of two existing methods for cell tower localization using wardriving data. The results show that naively applying these methods results in very large localization errors. We analyze the causes for these errors and conclude that one can localize a cell accurately only if it falls within the area covered by the wardriving trace. We further propose a bounding technique to select the cells that fall within the area covered by the wardriving trace and identify a cell combining optimization that can further reduce the localization error by half.

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UbiComp '10: Proceedings of the 12th ACM international conference on Ubiquitous computing

September 2010

366 pages

ISBN:9781605588438

DOI:10.1145/1864349

General Chairs:
Jakob E. Bardram
IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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University of Lugano, Switzerland
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University of Toronto, Canada
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Paddy Nixon
University College Dublin, Ireland

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