Abstract
Cooperative localizer is a potential positioning technique for vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs). However, it would suffer from the non-line-of-sight (NLOS) problems widely existing in VANETs. This letter proposes a geographical information enhanced cooperative localizer (GIE-CL) for VANET with time-of-arrival (TOA) measurements. It iterates between NLOS identification and extended generalized approximate message passing (EGAMP) motivated cooperative positioning. A region sampling method is developed to identify NLOS measurements based on geographical information and current vehicle position estimations. Subsequently, the detected NLOS measurements are removed and the EGAMP localizer is activated to re-estimate the vehicle positions. The above-mentioned iteration will be terminated until convergence is reached. Initial positions are provided by Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). Simulation results show that GIE-CL can handle the NLOS problem, and approach to its performance upper bound provided by the case with known NLOS/LOS link-type information. Compared to EGAMP localizer, the positioning accuracy of GIE-CL is improved by eight times when the allowed localization error is less than 5 m.
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