Title
Indoor Geo-Location Approach for Dense Multipath Environments
Abstract
Received signal's time-of-arrival (TOA) based real time ranging system is widely used for UWB geolocation. However, multipath radio wave propagation and Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) incidents can cause a large error in source localization. In order to mitigate these errors, this paper proposes and investigates a novel approach which makes a hybrid combination of fingerprinting (FP) positioning and an iterative Time of Arrival (TOA) real time positioning method. Moreover, to reduce the computational complexities in FP method, we introduce a unique idea for the arrangement of reference tags to create fingerprinting database. Each arrangement of reference tags resembles a shape of polygon, which size dominates the computational complexities of FP as well as proposed hybrid method. By analyzing the tradeoff between positioning accuracies and computational complexities in proposed method we determine the appropriate size of polygon to reduce the computational complexity while maintaining a higher positioning accuracy. Moreover, proposed method is the effective solution of geo-location in the dense multipath condition and in the worst cases of NLOS. Finally, in comparison with TOA only, FP only and a conventional iterative positioning method the proposed hybrid method yields better performance and is much more robust in dense multipath situations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/VTCFall.2013.6692239
Vehicular Technology Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
computational complexity,indoor radio,iterative methods,radiowave propagation,time-of-arrival estimation,ultra wideband technology,UWB geolocation,computational complexities,dense multipath environments,fingerprinting database,fingerprinting positioning,indoor geo-location,iterative time of arrival real time positioning,multipath radiowave propagation,nonline-of-sight incidents,real time ranging system,source localization,time-of-arrival
Multipath propagation,Non-line-of-sight propagation,Iterative method,Computer science,Geolocation,Electronic engineering,Real-time computing,Ranging,Radio propagation,Time of arrival,Computational complexity theory
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1090-3038
0
0.34
References 
Authors
8
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Md. Humayun Kabir1163.72
Holitiana Randrianandraina200.34
Sugimoto, C.387.06
Ryuji Kohno4747623.24