A cooperative localization scheme for 4G wireless communications

Author

Frattasi, S. ; Monti, Marco ; Prasad, Ramjee

Author_Institution

Center for TeleInFrastruktur, Aalborg Univ.

fYear

2006

Firstpage

287

Lastpage

290

Abstract

Along with a vision that foresees the fourth generation (4G) as based on a cellular system that will also support short-range communications among the terminals, in this paper we propose an innovative geolocation scheme that combines long-and short-range location information, respectively retrieved by mean of a hybrid time of arrival/angle of arrival (TOA/AOA) technique in the cellular segment and a TOA technique in the short-range one, in order to enhance the location estimation accuracy with respect to the actual stand-alone hybrid cellular solutions

Keywords

4G mobile communication; cellular radio; direction-of-arrival estimation; time-of-arrival estimation; 4G wireless communications; AOA; TOA; angle of arrival; cellular system; cooperative localization scheme; innovative geolocation scheme; location estimation; short-range communications; time of arrival; Asset management; Energy consumption; FCC; Fiber reinforced plastics; Global Positioning System; Information retrieval; Intelligent transportation systems; Time measurement; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio and Wireless Symposium, 2006 IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9412-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RWS.2006.1615151

Filename

1615151