SimDeep: An Efficient Federated Learning Indoor Localization System with Similarity Aggregation Strategy

Indoor localization is critical for enabling a wide range of location-based services such as navigation, security, and contextual computing in complex indoor environments. Despite significant advances, the deployment of indoor localization systems in real-world settings remains limited due to challenges posed by non-independent and identically distributed (non-IID) data and device heterogeneity. In this paper, we propose SimDeep, a novel Federated Learning (FL) framework designed to tackle these challenges. SimDeep introduces a Similarity Aggregation Strategy to aggregate model updates based on client similarity, thereby effectively addressing the non-IID issue. Experimental results demonstrate that SimDeep achieves 92.89% accuracy, outperforming traditional federated and centralized techniques, making it a promising solution for practical deployment.