Topology assessment provided by weighted barycentric parameters in harsh environment wireless location systems

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 3842-3857

  Mazuelas, Santiago ^a   Lorenzo, Ruben M ^b   Bahillo, Alfonso ^a   Fernandez, Patricia ^b   Prieto, Javier ^b   Abril, Evaristo J ^b  

^a Centro Tecnologico para El Desarrollo de Las Telecomunicaciones de Castilla y Leon   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cram r Rao lower bound (CRLB); Received signal strength (RSS); Time of arrival (TOA); Topology assessment weighted barycentric parameters (TAWBAP); Wireless localization.

Indexed keywords

LOWER BOUNDS; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH; TIME OF ARRIVAL; TOPOLOGY ASSESSMENT; WIRELESS LOCALIZATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; RANDOM ERRORS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 77953805195     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2010.2047394     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. A. Küpper, Location-Based Services: Fundamentals and Operation. New York: Wiley, 2005.
2. F. Gustafsson and F. Gunnarsson, "Mobile positioning using wireless networks," IEEE Signal Process. Mag., vol.22, no.4, pp. 41-53, 2005.
3. N. Patwari, J. N. Ash, S. Kyperountas, A. O. Hero, R. L. Moses, and N. S. Correal, "Locating the nodes: Cooperative localization in wireless sensor network," IEEE Signal Process. Mag., vol.22, pp. 54-69, July 2005.
4. Y. Qi, H. Kobayashi, and H. Suda, "Analysis of wireless geolocation in a non-line-of-sight environment," IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol.5, no.3, pp. 672-681, Mar. 2006.
5. A. Bahillo, J. Prieto, S. Mazuelas, R. M. Lorenzo, J. Blas, and P. Fernandez, "IEEE 802.11 distance estimation based on RTS/CTS twoframe exchange mechanism," in Proc. Veh. Technol. Conf. 2009 VTC - 2009 Spring, May 2009.
6. I. Sharp, K. Yu, and Y. J. Guo, "GDOP analysis for positioning system design," IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., accepted for publication.
7. M. A. Spirito, "On the accuracy of cellular mobile station location estimation," IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol.50, no.3, pp. 674-685, May 2001.
8. S. Mazuelas, A. Bahillo, R. M. Lorenzo, P. Fernandez, F. A. Lago, E. Garcia, J. Blas, and E. J. Abril, "Robust indoor positioning provided by real-time RSSI values in unmodified WLAN networks," IEEE J. Sel. Top. Signal Process., vol.3, no.5, pp. 821-831, Oct. 2009, Special Issue on Adv. Signal Process. GNSS and Robust Navigat..
9. J. Chaffee and J. Abel, "GDOP and the cramer-rao bound," in Proc. IEEE Symp. Position Location Navigat., Las Vegas, NV, 1994.
10. R. Yarlagadda, I. Ali, N. Al-Dhahir, and J. Hershey, "GPS GDOP metric," Inst. Elect. Eng. Proc. Radar, Sonar Navigat., vol.147, no.5, pp. 259-264, May 2000.
11. D. Jourdan, D. Dardari, and M. Z. Win, "Position error bound for UWB localization in dense cluttered environments," IEEE Trans. Aerosp. Electron. Syst., vol.44, no.2, pp. 613-628, 2008.
12. D. B. Jourdan and N. Roy, "Optimal sensor placement for agent localization," in Proc. IEEE Position, Location, Navigat. Symp. (PLANS 06), San Diego, CA, Apr. 2006, pp. 128-139.
13. H. Zhang, "Two-dimensional optimal sensor placement," IEEE Trans. Syst., Man, Cybern., vol.25, no.5, pp. 781-1752, May 1995.
14. N. Levanon, "Lowest GDOP in 2-D scenarios," IEEE Proc., Radar, Sonar Navigat., vol.14, no.3, pp. 149-155, 2000.
15. D. J. Torrieri, "Statistical theory of passive location systems," IEEE Trans. Aerosp. Electron. Syst., vol.20, no.2, pp. 183-198, 1984.
16. W. H. Foy, "Position-location solutions by Taylor-series estimation," IEEE Trans. Aerosp. Electron. Syst., vol.AES-12, no.2, pp. 187-194, Mar. 1976.
17. J. J. Caffery, "A new approach to the geometry of TOA location," in Proc. 2000 IEEE Veh. Technol. Conf., Sep. 2000, vol.4, pp. 1943-1949.
18. Y. Qi, H. Kobayashi, and H. Suda, "On time-of-arrival positioning in a multipath environment," IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol.55, no.5, pp. 1516-1526, 2006.
19. Y. Qi, "Wireless geolocation in a non-line-of-sight environment," Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ, Nov. 2003.
20. K.Yu and Y. J. Guo, "Improved positioning algorithms for non-line-ofsight environments," IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol., vol.57, no.4, pp. 2342-2353, July 2008.
21. W. C. Y. Lee, "Diversity schemes," in Mobile Communication Engineering. New York: McGraw-Hall, 1993, ch. 9.
22. N. Patwari, A. O. Hero, III, N. S. Correal, and R. J. O, "Relative location estimation in wireless sensor networks," IEEE Trans. Signal Process., vol.51, no.8, pp. 2137-2148, 2003.
23. S. M. Kay, Fundamentals of Statistical Signal Processing-Estimation Theory. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1993, vol.I.
24. C. Chang and A. Sahai, "Cramer-Rao type bounds for localization," EURASIP J. Appl. Signal Process., vol.2006, 2006.
25. S. Mazuelas, A. Bahillo, J. Prieto, R. Lorenzo, P. Fernandez, F. Lago, and J. Blas, "Assessment of optimum geometric distribution of anchors in non-GNSS wireless location systems," in Proc. IEEE Wireless Telecommun. Symp., Prague, Czech Republic, Apr. 2009.
26. K. Yu, "3-D localization error analysis in wireless networks," IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol.6, no.10, pp. 3473-3481, Oct. 2007.
27. M. G. D. Benedetto and G. Giancola, Understanding Ultra Wideband Radio Fundamentals. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2004.
28. J. Prieto, A. Bahillo, S. Mazuelas, J. Blas, P. Fernández, and R. M. Lorenzo, "RTS/CTS mechanism with IEEE 802.11 for indoor location," in Proc. NAV08/ILA37 Navigat. Conf. Exhibit., Oct. 2008.
29. J. E. Gentle, Matrix Algebra: Theory, Computations, and Applications in Statistics, ser. Springer Texts in Statistics. NewYork: Springer Science+ Business Media, LLC, 2007.