Title
Passive geolocalization of radio transmitters: Algorithm and performance in narrowband context
Abstract
Passive localization commonly consists of a two steps strategy. In the first step, intermediate parameters, often called measurements (such as angles of arrival (AOA), times of arrival (TOA), etc.) are measured on several base stations equipped with sensor arrays. In a second step, the transmitted intermediate parameters are then used to estimate the position at a central processing unit. Such approach is suboptimal. To overcome this limitation, one step algorithms were recently proposed. They exploit simultaneously all received signals of all base stations seen as a global array in order to provide the source positions directly. In this paper, we propose an original one step algorithm called global MUSIC approach (GMA). The GMA offers better performance in narrowband context. Moreover it does not require the use of filter banks in the wideband signal context, contrary to the recently proposed direct position determination (DPD). GMA appears to outperform the DPD in wideband context. We also investigate in this paper by means of a Cramer-Rao bound analysis the potential gain achievable by a one step approach compared to a conventional two steps approach. Finally, numerical results illustrate the improvement of the proposed method compared to existing techniques in terms of location error and robustness to the time-bandwidth product.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1016/j.sigpro.2011.09.008
Signal Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
wideband context,passive geolocalization,narrowband context,step algorithm,steps approach,radio transmitter,global music approach,direct position determination,base station,wideband signal context,step approach
Base station,Transmitter,Wideband,Central processing unit,Array processing,Narrowband,Algorithm,Robustness (computer science),Electronic engineering,Exploit,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
92
4
0165-1684
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
10
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jonathan Bosse1175.77
Anne FerréOl24911.32
CéCile Germond3211.48
Pascal Larzabal453564.76