An Integrated Simulated Annealing Algorithm for WiFi-based Indoor Positioning

Published in 30th International Computing and Combinatorics Conference (COCOON 2024), 2024

We present an integrated simulated annealing algorithm for WiFi-based indoor positioning using Channel State Information (CSI).

Key contributions:

  • A simulated-annealing-based optimization framework for Time-of-Flight (ToF) indoor localization
  • Combined triangulation and the MUSIC algorithm for transmitter localization
  • A two-stage error mitigation pipeline including data cleaning and nonlinear optimization
  • Demonstrated superior positioning accuracy and robustness compared with traditional optimization methods such as L-BFGS

This paper was accepted at the 30th International Computing and Combinatorics Conference (COCOON 2024), and received a Competition Award at the conference.

Recommended citation: Denghong Luan, Yiheng Zhang, Chen Bin. "An Integrated Simulated Annealing Algorithm for WiFi-based Indoor Positioning." Proceedings of the 30th International Computing and Combinatorics Conference (COCOON 2024).