TR2010-066

Enhanced Position Estimation Via Node Cooperation

    •  Sahinoglu, Z., Gezici, S., "Enhanced Position Estimation via Node Cooperation", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), DOI: 10.1109/​ICC.2010.5502319, May 2010, pp. 1-6.
      BibTeX TR2010-066 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Sahinoglu2010may,
      • author = {Sahinoglu, Z. and Gezici, S.},
      • title = {Enhanced Position Estimation via Node Cooperation},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)},
      • year = 2010,
      • pages = {1--6},
      • month = may,
      • doi = {10.1109/ICC.2010.5502319},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2010-066}
      • }
  • Research Area:

    Signal Processing

Abstract:

Two-way time-of-arrival (TW-ToA) is a widely used ranging protocol that can provide the distance between tow devices without time synchronization. One drawback of the TW-ToA is poor positioning accuracy in the absence of a sufficient number of reference ranging devices. Also, for a self-positioning system with a limited battery life, it might be necessary to limit the number of transmissions while satisfying accuracy constraints. In this paper, a cooperative positioning protocol [1] is studied, which can improve positioning accuracy compared to the conventional TW-ToA based positioning systems and also facilitate positioning with fewer packet transmissions; hence, it can prolong battery life on average. The maximum likelihood estimator is obtained for the cooperative technique and the limits on the positioning accuracy are quantified in terms of the Cramer-Rao lower bound (CRLB). Simulation results are provided in order to show performance improvements.

 

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