Title :
Experimental Performance Comparison of RSSI- and TDOA-Based Location Estimation Methods
Author :
Hara, Shinsuke ; Anzai, Daisuke
Author_Institution :
Grad. Sch. of Eng., Osaka City Univ., Osaka
Abstract :
The superiority of TDOA-based localization over RSSI-based localization has been pointed out in many papers mainly by the results of theoretical analyses and computer simulations, but it has been rarely confirmed by experiments. This paper compares the location estimation performances between a RSSI-based method and a TDOA- based method by experiments and discusses their pros and cons in detail. It is shown that RSSI-based method is advantageous in the crowded location estimation area where the direct links between a target node and anchor nodes are frequently shadowed by walking men.
Keywords :
time-of-arrival estimation; RSSI-based localization; RSSI-based location estimation; TDOA-based localization; TDOA-based location estimation; experimental performance comparison; Computer simulation; Legged locomotion; Maximum likelihood estimation; Medical treatment; Performance analysis; Polarization; Receiving antennas; Target tracking; Transmitting antennas; Wireless networks;
Conference_Titel :
Vehicular Technology Conference, 2008. VTC Spring 2008. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Singapore
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1644-8
Electronic_ISBN :
1550-2252
DOI :
10.1109/VETECS.2008.581
