An Impulsive Noise-Resistant Target Localization Approach With Unknown Model Parameter Learning

Received signal strength (RSS)-based localization techniques have gained much attention in location-based services (LBSs). However, the coexistence of unknown path loss exponent (PLE), uncertain sensor positions, and impulsive noise poses serious challenges to localization accuracy. To address the problem, we first model the impulsive noise as a Mixture of Gaussian (MoG) distribution with unknown parameters. Thus, the noise model and the channel model can be refined using the observed data under the variational Bayesian inference (VBI) framework, which is defined as the model refinement learning. We then propose a corresponding online target localization procedure with the refined noise distribution, PLE and sensor positions. The Bayesian Cramer-Rao bound (BCRB) is finally derived in terms of all unknown parameters. Simulation results together with real experiment demonstrate that the proposed VBI algorithm can effectively learn the true noise distribution, and the developed localization method exhibits robust localization performance in various scenarios.