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Among various methods, fingerprint-based indoor localization has become a popular choice due to its exceptional accuracy, cost-effectiveness, and ease of implementation. However, its performance degrades significantly as a result of multipath signal attenuation and environmental changes. In this paper, we propose an indoor localization method based on fingerprints using self-attention and long short-term memory (LSTM). By integrating a self-attention mechanism and LSTM network, the proposed method exhibits outstanding positioning accuracy and robustness in diverse experimental environments. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated under two different experimental scenarios, which involve 2D and 3D moving trajectories, respectively. The experimental results demonstrate that our approach achieves an average localization error of 1.76 m and 2.83 m in the respective scenarios, outperforming the existing state-of-the-art methods by 42.67% and 31.64%.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s24051398","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,2,22]],"date-time":"2024-02-22T03:30:26Z","timestamp":1708572626000},"page":"1398","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Attention Mechanism and LSTM Network for Fingerprint-Based Indoor Location System"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"24","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0207-6872","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zhen","family":"Wu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mobile Communications and Terminal Research, China Telecom Research Institute, Guangzhou 510000, China"}]},{"given":"Peng","family":"Hu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mobile Communications and Terminal Research, China Telecom Research Institute, Guangzhou 510000, China"}]},{"given":"Shuangyue","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mobile Communications and Terminal Research, China Telecom Research Institute, Guangzhou 510000, China"}]},{"given":"Tao","family":"Pang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mobile Communications and Terminal Research, China Telecom Research Institute, Guangzhou 510000, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,2,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Zhong, S., Li, L., Liu, Y.G., and Yang, Y.R. 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