A neural network (NN)-based approach for indoor localization via cellular
long-term evolution (LTE) signals is proposed. The approach estimates, from the
channel impulse response (CIR), the range between an LTE eNodeB and a receiver.
A software-defined radio (SDR) extracts the CIR, which is fed to a long
short-term memory model (LSTM) recurrent neural network (RNN) to estimate the
range. Experimental results are presented comparing the proposed approach
against a baseline RNN without LSTM. The results show a receiver navigating for
100 m in an indoor environment, while receiving signals from one LTE eNodeB.
The ranging root-mean squared error (RMSE) and ranging maximum error along the
receiver's trajectory were reduced from 13.11 m and 55.68 m, respectively, in
the baseline RNN to 9.02 m and 27.40 m, respectively, with the proposed
RNN-LSTM.