Performance evaluation of indoor geolocation systems using PROPSim hardware and ray tracing software

Author

Heidari, Mohammad ; Pahlavan, Kaveh

Author_Institution

Center for Wireless Inf. Network Studies, Worcester Polytech. Inst., MA, USA

fYear

2004

fDate

31 May-3 June 2004

Firstpage

351

Lastpage

355

Abstract

In this paper we present a real-time channel simulation environment for performance evaluation of the indoor geolocation systems using RSS. The EKAHAU positioning software is used as the test positioning system for performance evaluation. The core of the testbed hardware is the PROPSim real-time channel simulator originally developed for real time performance evaluation of wireless communication modems. We interface the hardware to 2D ray tracing software to make it suitable for simulation of the indoor location identification. This paper provides implementation details of this testbed and presents the preliminary results of our performance evaluation.

Keywords

indoor communication; ray tracing; real-time systems; telecommunication channels; telecommunication computing; 2D ray tracing software; EKAHAU positioning software; PROPSim hardware; PROPSim real-time channel simulator; indoor geolocation systems; ray tracing software; real-time channel simulation; wireless communication modems; Application software; Databases; Global Positioning System; Hardware; Ray tracing; Real time systems; Safety; Signal processing algorithms; Software performance; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks, 2004 International Workshop on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8275-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWWAN.2004.1525601

Filename

1525601