Title
Impact of I/Q Imbalance on Time Reversal-based Indoor Positioning Systems
Abstract
Time reversal has been shown as a promising technology for the indoor positioning. Instead of mitigating the multipath channel, the time reversal based indoor positioning system (TRIPS) exploits the rich multipath propagation in indoor environments as a specific signature for each location. In order to do this, a database should be first constructed by channel probing. The devices used in this process are assumed to have no hardware impairments or be well calibrated. However, the low cost terminal to be located can exhibit impairments, such as I/Q imbalance at the front end transmitter known to create an interference image of the signal that can particularly impact the performance of time reversal. In this paper, we investigate the impact of the I/Q imbalance on the TRIPS. We analytically show that the I/Q imbalance modifies the metric used for the localization and hence reduces the spatial focusing gain of TRIPS. Numerical simulations are carried out to evaluate this observation. The results further show that the I/Q imbalance creates errors in the positioning estimation. More specifically, at the gain and phase imbalances of respectively 1.1 and 10°, the focusing gain reduction is about 0.5 dB while the estimation error rate is increased by about 5% in the specified scenario.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/WiMOB.2018.8589134
2018 14th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Indoor positioning system,time reversal,I/Q imbalance,OFDM.
Front and back ends,Multipath propagation,Transmitter,Computer science,Word error rate,Communication channel,Electronic engineering,Interference (wave propagation),Indoor positioning system,Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing,Distributed computing
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2160-4886
978-1-5386-6877-1
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
6
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nguyen Trung-Hien115.43
Louveaux Jérôme228427.22
De Doncker Philippe323334.93
F. Horlin45711.20