Extreme learning machine for user location prediction in mobile environment

Purpose – Prediction accuracies are usually affected by the techniques and devices used as well as the algorithms applied. This work aims to attempt to further devise a better positioning accuracy based on location fingerprinting taking advantage of two important mobile fingerprints, namely signal s...

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Main Authors: Mantoro, Teddy, Olowolayemo, Akeem, Olatunji, Sunday O., Ayu, Media Anugerah, Md. Tap, Abu Osman
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Published: Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011
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spelling iium-33582013-07-31T01:34:58Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/3358/ Extreme learning machine for user location prediction in mobile environment Mantoro, Teddy Olowolayemo, Akeem Olatunji, Sunday O. Ayu, Media Anugerah Md. Tap, Abu Osman T Technology (General) Purpose – Prediction accuracies are usually affected by the techniques and devices used as well as the algorithms applied. This work aims to attempt to further devise a better positioning accuracy based on location fingerprinting taking advantage of two important mobile fingerprints, namely signal strength (SS) and signal quality (SQ) and subsequently building a model based on extreme learning machine (ELM), a new learning algorithm for single-hidden-layer neural networks. Design/methodology/approach – Prediction approach to location determination based on historical data has attracted a lot of attention in recent studies, the reason being that it offers the convenience of using previously accumulated location data to subsequently determine locations using predictive algorithms. There have been various approaches to location positioning to further improve mobile user location determination accuracy. This work examines the location determination techniques by attempting to determine the location of mobile users by taking advantage of SS and SQ history data and modeling the locations using the ELM algorithm. The empirical results show that the proposed model based on the ELM algorithm noticeably outperforms k-Nearest Neighbor approaches. Findings – WiFi's SS contributes more in accuracy to the prediction of user location than WiFi's SQ. Moreover, the new framework based on ELM has been compared with the k-Nearest Neighbor and the results have shown that the proposed model based on the extreme learning algorithm outperforms the k-Nearest Neighbor approach. Originality/value – A new computational intelligence modeling scheme, based on the ELM has been investigated, developed and implemented, as an efficient and more accurate predictive solution for determining position of mobile users based on location fingerprint data (SS and SQ). Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/3358/4/Extreme_learning_IJPervasiveCnC.pdf Mantoro, Teddy and Olowolayemo, Akeem and Olatunji, Sunday O. and Ayu, Media Anugerah and Md. Tap, Abu Osman (2011) Extreme learning machine for user location prediction in mobile environment. International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, 7 (2). pp. 162-180. ISSN 1742-7371 http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/17427371111146446 doi:10.1108/17427371111146446
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Mantoro, Teddy
Olowolayemo, Akeem
Olatunji, Sunday O.
Ayu, Media Anugerah
Md. Tap, Abu Osman
Extreme learning machine for user location prediction in mobile environment
description Purpose – Prediction accuracies are usually affected by the techniques and devices used as well as the algorithms applied. This work aims to attempt to further devise a better positioning accuracy based on location fingerprinting taking advantage of two important mobile fingerprints, namely signal strength (SS) and signal quality (SQ) and subsequently building a model based on extreme learning machine (ELM), a new learning algorithm for single-hidden-layer neural networks. Design/methodology/approach – Prediction approach to location determination based on historical data has attracted a lot of attention in recent studies, the reason being that it offers the convenience of using previously accumulated location data to subsequently determine locations using predictive algorithms. There have been various approaches to location positioning to further improve mobile user location determination accuracy. This work examines the location determination techniques by attempting to determine the location of mobile users by taking advantage of SS and SQ history data and modeling the locations using the ELM algorithm. The empirical results show that the proposed model based on the ELM algorithm noticeably outperforms k-Nearest Neighbor approaches. Findings – WiFi's SS contributes more in accuracy to the prediction of user location than WiFi's SQ. Moreover, the new framework based on ELM has been compared with the k-Nearest Neighbor and the results have shown that the proposed model based on the extreme learning algorithm outperforms the k-Nearest Neighbor approach. Originality/value – A new computational intelligence modeling scheme, based on the ELM has been investigated, developed and implemented, as an efficient and more accurate predictive solution for determining position of mobile users based on location fingerprint data (SS and SQ).
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author Mantoro, Teddy
Olowolayemo, Akeem
Olatunji, Sunday O.
Ayu, Media Anugerah
Md. Tap, Abu Osman
author_facet Mantoro, Teddy
Olowolayemo, Akeem
Olatunji, Sunday O.
Ayu, Media Anugerah
Md. Tap, Abu Osman
author_sort Mantoro, Teddy
title Extreme learning machine for user location prediction in mobile environment
title_short Extreme learning machine for user location prediction in mobile environment
title_full Extreme learning machine for user location prediction in mobile environment
title_fullStr Extreme learning machine for user location prediction in mobile environment
title_full_unstemmed Extreme learning machine for user location prediction in mobile environment
title_sort extreme learning machine for user location prediction in mobile environment
publisher Emerald Group Publishing Limited
publishDate 2011
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/3358/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/3358/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/3358/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/3358/4/Extreme_learning_IJPervasiveCnC.pdf
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