Towards an experimental analysis of android phone: GSM network positioning

Network positioning technology has been widely used in existing smart phones. Traditional network positioning methods are carried out by the network provider; this could violate user's privacy.In this paper we present a work in progress on the positioning of smart phone users using wireless networks. We propose a self-positioning scheme based on the fingerprint method, a positioning method commonly used in indoor environments in previous studies. We outline the proposed self-positioning scheme and propose a k-nearest neighbor method to improve the positioning accuracy. In future, we will evaluate the proposed scheme and method in field experiments.