A new approach to the geometry of TOA location

Author

Caffery, James J., Jr.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Cincinnati Univ., OH, USA

Volume

4

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

1943

Abstract

Positioning a transmitter via measured times of arrival (TOAs), or range measurements, is a familiar technique that has received much attention in the literature. In the traditional geometric interpretation, TOAs generate circles whose intersections provide the estimate of the transmitter. In this paper a new geometrical interpretation is presented in which straight lines of position (LOPs), rather than the circular LOPs, are used to determine the position of the transmitter. The straight LOPs come from a simple observation regarding the geometry of the system and are not obtained from linearization. Two methods using the straight LOPs are given and their performance is analyzed and compared to methods which employ linearization

Keywords

cellular radio; multiuser channels; radio direction-finding; radio networks; radio transmitters; time division multiple access; time measurement; timing; TDMA cellular networks; TOA location geometry; geometrical interpretation; linearization; measured times of arrival; mobile transmitter positioning; performance analysis; range measurements; straight lines of position; system geometry; FCC; GSM; Geometry; Position measurement; Space exploration; Telephone sets; Time difference of arrival; Time division multiple access; Time measurement; Transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2000. IEEE-VTS Fall VTC 2000. 52nd

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6507-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECF.2000.886153

Filename

886153