• DocumentCode
    2332523
  • Title

    Situation Awareness Based on Channel Measurements

  • Author

    Reschke, Markus ; Schwarzl, Sebastian ; Starosta, Johannes ; Sigg, Stephan

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Oper. Syst. & Comput.Networks, Tech. Univ. Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    15-18 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    5
  • Abstract
    We study the feasibility of utilising the RF transceiver of a mobile device to establish some kind of situation awareness. Our results show that the analysis of channel characteristics can provide additional and sufficiently accurate context information. This situation awareness is cheap in the sense that it can be obtained from already ongoing communication in a network of nodes. In this paper we present results from a case study with several USRP software radios. We show how the presence, position and activity of persons in a room can be obtained exclusively from channel measurements.
  • Keywords
    mobile handsets; radio transceivers; software radio; wireless channels; RF transceiver; USRP software radio; channel characteristic analysis; channel measurement; context information; mobile device; situation awareness; Accuracy; Context; Feature extraction; Radio frequency; Sensors; Signal to noise ratio; Transceivers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring), 2011 IEEE 73rd
  • Conference_Location
    Yokohama
  • ISSN
    1550-2252
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8332-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/VETECS.2011.5956453
  • Filename
    5956453