ILight: Indoor device-free passive tracking using wireless sensor networks

Xufei Mao; Shaojie Tang; Xiaohua Xu; Xiang Yang Li; Huadong Ma

doi:10.1109/INFCOM.2011.5935116

ILight: Indoor device-free passive tracking using wireless sensor networks

Xufei Mao
, Shaojie Tang
, Xiaohua Xu
, Xiang Yang Li
, Huadong Ma

Management Science and Systems

Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Illinois Institute of Technology

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Abstract

Target tracking is a main application of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), and has been studied widely [4], [10]. In this work, we study indoor passive tracking problem using WSNs, in which we assume no equipment is carried by the target and the tracking procedure is passive. We propose to use light to track a moving target in WSNs. To our best knowledge, this is the first work which tracks a moving object by using light sensors and general light sources. We design a novel probabilistic protocol (system) iLight to track a moving target and several efficient methods to compute the target's moving patterns (like height, etc.) at the same time. We implement and evaluate our tracking system iLight in a testbed consisting of 40 sensor nodes, 10 general light sources and one base station. Through extensive experiments, we show that iLight can track a moving target efficiently and accurately.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2011 Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM
Pages	281-285
Number of pages	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/INFCOM.2011.5935116
State	Published - 2011
Event	IEEE INFOCOM 2011 - Shanghai, China Duration: Apr 10 2011 → Apr 15 2011

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Name	Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM
ISSN (Print)	0743-166X

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Conference	IEEE INFOCOM 2011
Country/Territory	China
City	Shanghai
Period	04/10/11 → 04/15/11

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