Paper Info
Title
A hybrid TDoA-ToA localization method
Abstract
One of the main advantages when comparing time over signal strength localization methods, is that the former do not require the creation of fingerprint databases. On the other hand, the majority of time based methods require some sort of clock synchronization due to the drifting of the local clocks. This paper presents an innovative time-based localization method which utilizes the information provided by 802.11 Beacon packet data. The advantage of this method over other time based methods is that the Mobile Terminal (MT) does not require to establish a connection to an Access Point (AP), or to send and receive packets as other time based methods do. Also, the proposed method does not require any clock synchronization. The method works by analyzing Beacon timestamp and MAC timestamp. By using Beacon Interval, Beacon timestamp and Service Set Identifier (SSID) of a packet, it has been made possible to optimally process the collected MAC timestamps to provide a hybrid TDoA-ToA localization method with an average error of less than 2.5 meters.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/ICTEL.2013.6632087
Telecommunications
Keywords
Field
DocType
IEEE standards,direction-of-arrival estimation,packet radio networks,synchronisation,telecommunication standards,time-of-arrival estimation,wireless LAN,802.11 Beacon packet data,Beacon interval,Beacon timestamp,MAC timestamp,SSID,access point,clock synchronization,fingerprint databases,hybrid TDoA-ToA localization method,mobile terminal,service set identifier,time based methods,time-based localization method,Beacon,TDoA,ToA,indoor,localization
Service set,Synchronization,Computer science,Network packet,Computer network,Real-time computing,Clock synchronization,Timestamp,Multilateration,Mobile telephony,Electric beacon
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4673-6425-6
3
0.41
References 
Authors
5
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Amin Gholoobi130.41
Stavros Stavrou230.41