Experimental Test Cases for Wireless Positioning Systems

Ubiquitous mobile computing is a new and very interesting research topic with wide applicability in context-aware solutions and position-dependent provided services. One of the most significant elements of context-awareness in ubiquitous environments is mobile device localization. There have been a number of attempts to design systems for indoor localization using different wireless sensing techniques, although currently there is no conclusive method for this purpose. There is also a list of issues that prevent from obtaining a good positioning accuracy which are not often addressed by other articles. Therefore, we want to propose a set of test cases for wireless local positioning systems (WPS) based on radio signal strength we call positioning test cases. These tests could be used to compare different WPS implementations or to deploy a certain WPS implementation.