RSSI-based fingerprint localization in LoRaWAN networks using CNNs with squeeze and excitation blocks

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Lutakamale, Albert Selebea
De Freitas, Allan

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Elsevier

Abstract

The ability to offer long-range, high scalability, sustainability, and low-power wireless communication, are the key factors driving the rapid adoption of the LoRaWAN technology in large-scale Internet of Things applications. This situation has created high demand to incorporate location estimation capabilities into largescale IoT applications to meaningfully interpret physical measurements collected from IoT devices. As a result, research aimed at investigating node localization in LoRaWAN networks is on the rise. The poor localization performance of classical range-based localization approaches in LoRaWAN networks is due to the long-range nature of LoRaWAN and the rich scattering nature of outdoor environments, which affects signal transmission. Because of the ability of fingerprint-based localization methods to effectively learn useful positional information even from noisy RSSI data, this work proposes a fingerprinting-based branched convolutional neural network (CNN) localization method enhanced with squeeze and excitation (SE) blocks to localize a node in LoRaWAN using RSSI data. Results from the experiments conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed method using a publicly available LoRaWAN dataset prove its effectiveness and robustness in localizing a node with satisfactory results even with a 30% reduction in both the principal component analysis (PCA) variances on the training data and the size of the original sample. A localization accuracy of 284.57 m mean error on the test area was achieved using the Powed data representation, which represents an 8.39% increase in localization accuracy compared to the currently best-performing fingerprint method in the literature, evaluated using the same LoRaWAN dataset.

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DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT: The dataset used is a publicly available dataset.

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Fingerprint localization, LoRaWAN, Wireless communications, Convolutional neural network (CNN), Internet of Things (IoT), Low power wide area networking (LPWAN), SDG-09: Industry, innovation and infrastructure

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SDG-09: Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Citation

Lutakamale, A.S., Myburgh, H.C., De Freitas, A., 'RSSI-based fingerprint localization in LoRaWAN networks using CNNs with squeeze and excitation blocks', Ad Hoc Networks, Vol. 159, art.103486, pp. 1-12, doi: 10.1016/j.adhoc.2024.103486.