With the increasing demand of location-based services, channel state information (CSI) has attracted great interest because of the fine-grained information it provides. In this paper, we propose an original network structure, which exploits both the local information and global information in CSI amplitude for fingerprint localization. First, we validate the correlation between adjacent subcarriers and introduce the position-dependent local feature (PDL-feature). Next, local connection based deep neural network (LC-DNN) is designed to improve positioning performance by extracting and exploiting the correlation between adjacent subcarriers for indoor localization. LC-DNN consists of locally-connected layer and fully-connected layer. In the locally-connected layer, the variation of CSI amplitude in local frequency range is extracted and spliced for rich information. The frequency range and the times of extraction are determined by receptive field length and step size respectively. In the fully-connected layer, not only global features of CSI amplitude are further extracted, but also the function between features and position coordinates is obtained. Experiments are conducted to validate the effectiveness of LC-DNN and investigate the influence of hyper parameters on localization. Moreover, the positioning performance of LC-DNN is compared with four methods based on deep neural networks (DNNs). Results show that LC-DNN performs well in positioning accuracy and stability, with the mean error of 0.78m. INDEX TERMS Indoor localization, deep neural network (DNN), position-dependent local feature (PDLfeature), local connection, channel state information (CSI)
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