用手机数据生成更多定位指纹,提升蜂窝网络室外定位精度。
Improving Outdoor Multi-cell Fingerprinting-based Positioning via Mobile Data Augmentation
- 分离空间与信号特征生成,用核密度估计和KNN合成新位置与信号
- 在稀疏区域将定位误差降低30%,复杂结构区效果更明显
- 无需训练、可本地部署,适合运营商隐私保护场景
蜂窝网络中的精准室外定位受限于测量数据稀疏、异构性强以及全面勘测成本高昂。本文提出一种轻量级、模块化的移动数据增强框架,利用运营商采集的最小化路测(MDT)记录,提升多小区指纹定位性能。该方法解耦空间分布与无线特征合成:核密度估计(KDE)建模实际空间分布以生成地理一致的合成位置;基于KNN的块生成每个小区的增强信号指纹。架构无须训练,可解释性强,适用于分布式或本地部署,支持隐私友好型流程。我们基于意大利某运营商的真实MDT数据集,在多种城市与近郊场景下独立验证各模块并评估其端到端影响。结果表明,所提KDE-KNN增强方法在现有先进方法基础上持续提升定位性能,在采样最稀疏或结构最复杂的区域,中位定位误差最多降低30%。同时观察到区域依赖的饱和效应,用户密度高的场景中,新增合成样本的信息增益迅速减弱。总体而言,该框架为利用现有手机数据轨迹提升运营商定位服务提供了实用、低复杂度的路径。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Accurate outdoor positioning in cellular networks is hindered by sparse, heterogeneous measurement collections and the high cost of exhaustive site surveys. This paper introduces a lightweight, modular mobile data augmentation framework designed to enhance multi-cell fingerprinting-based positioning using operator-collected minimization of drive test (MDT) records. The proposed approach decouples spatial and radio-feature synthesis: kernel density estimation (KDE) models the empirical spatial distribution to generate geographically coherent synthetic locations, while a k-nearest-neighbor (KNN)-based block produces augmented per-cell radio fingerprints. The architecture is intentionally training-free, interpretable, and suitable for distributed or on-premise operator deployments, supporting privacy-aware workflows. We both validate each augmentation module independently and assess its end-to-end impact on fingerprinting-based positioning using a real-world MDT dataset provided by an Italian mobile network operator across diverse urban and peri-urban scenarios. Results show that the proposed KDE-KNN augmentation consistently improves positioning performance with respect to state-of-the-art approaches, reducing the median positioning error by up to 30% in the most sparsely sampled or structurally complex regions. We also observe region-dependent saturation effects, which emerge most rapidly in scenarios with high user density where the information gain from additional synthetic samples quickly diminishes. Overall, the framework offers a practical, low-complexity path to enhance operator positioning services using existing mobile data traces.
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