Mobile node tracking in an ad hoc network using Double Time Difference of Data Arrival and Kalman filtering

Author

Zhang, HuiYao ; Li, Jing ; Bialkowski, Marek ; Einicke, Garry ; Homer, John ; Wang, Feng

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Technol. & Electr. Eng., Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD

fYear

2008

fDate

15-17 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper describes a double time difference of arrival (DTDOA) method with Kalman filtering for tracking a mobile node in an ad hoc network. The DTDOA method relies on a double time difference of data arrival without time synchronization of various nodes of the system. The Kalman filtering is applied to smooth the results for static node location as well as to predict a mobile node trajectory. The validity of this method is demonstrated in an example of a simple ad hoc network.

Keywords

Kalman filters; ad hoc networks; mobility management (mobile radio); time-of-arrival estimation; Kalman filtering; ad hoc network; double time difference of arrival; mobile node tracking; mobile node trajectory; static node location; time synchronization; Ad hoc networks; Clocks; Filtering; Geometry; Kalman filters; Nonlinear equations; Radio transmitters; Synchronization; Time difference of arrival; Trajectory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing and Communication Systems, 2008. ICSPCS 2008. 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Gold Coast

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4243-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4243-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSPCS.2008.4813767

Filename

4813767