Abstract

The existence of various geo-location applications and their accuracy requirements enhance the necessities for suitable processing techniques to solve the indoor geo-location problems. Since, Impulse Radio Ultra-Wideband (IR-UWB) signals have very short duration pulses; they can provide very accurate ranging and geo-location capability in short range indoor radio propagation environments. Our research puts emphasis on indoor geo-location using UWB signaling considering both of non line-of-sight (NLOS) and LOS radio propagation environments. In this paper, we introduce and investigate a noble approach which makes a hybrid combination of Channel Impulse Response (CIR)-based finger-printing (FP) method with polygonal arrangement of reference nodes (or tags) and an iterative-TOA based real-time geo-location method using UWB signaling for wireless ad hoc networks. The proposed hybrid approach assures significant improvement in positioning accuracy compared to TOA only, FP only and conventional iterative-TOA geo-location methods by mitigating NLOS errors effectively in the indoor environment. Besides, this hybrid approach minimizes the calculation complexity of the FP method while maintaining improved geo-location accuracy in the dense multipath propagation environment.

Highlights

  • The appropriate and highly precise geo-location in indoor wireless networks could provide more interesting location based services in many domains

  • We introduce and investigate a noble approach which makes a hybrid combination of Channel Impulse Response (CIR)-based fingerprinting (FP) method with polygonal arrangement of reference nodes and an iterative-time of arrival (TOA) based real-time geo-location method using UWB signaling for wireless ad hoc networks

  • We introduce and investigate a noble geo-location approach which makes a hybrid combination of Channel Impulse Response (CIR)-based FP method with polygonal arrangement of reference nodes and an iterative-TOA based real-time method using UWB signaling in the both of non line-of-sight (NLOS) and LOS radio propagation environments

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Summary

Introduction

The appropriate and highly precise geo-location in indoor wireless networks could provide more interesting location based services in many domains. We introduce and investigate a noble geo-location approach which makes a hybrid combination of Channel Impulse Response (CIR)-based FP method with polygonal arrangement (which will be discussed in a later Chapter) of reference nodes and an iterative-TOA based real-time method using UWB signaling in the both of non line-of-sight (NLOS) and LOS radio propagation environments. This hybrid approach minimizes the calculation complexity of the FP method while maintaining improved geo-location accuracy.

Related Works
Preparations for Our Proposal for Hybrid Positioning Algorithm
Deterministic Channel Model for Indoor Radio Wave Propagation
Proposed CIR Based FP Positioning Approach for Indoor Environment
Proposed Hybrid Geo-Location Algorithm Combining TOA and FP Approaches
Numerical Analysis by Simulations
Effect of Different Sizes of Polygon in FP
Performance of Hybrid Geo-Location Method with Different NLOS Rates
Comparison of Proposed Hybrid Method with Other Geo-Location Methods
Conclusion

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