Hybrid Algorithm for Locating Mobile Station in Cellular Network

Author

Al-Ifan, Belal ; Hamid, Nor Asilah Wati Abdul ; Othman, Mohamed ; Subramaniam, Shamala

Author_Institution

Fac. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Technol., Univ. Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia

fYear

2009

fDate

3-5 April 2009

Firstpage

577

Lastpage

580

Abstract

Locating mobile stations have been attracting an increasing attention from both researchers and industry communities and it is one of the most popular research areas of cellular network. Locating mobile stations using time of arrival, time difference of arrival, angle of arrival and received signal strength techniques have been widely used. However, more accurate results have been achieved by combining two or more of these techniques. A hybrid algorithm for locating mobile station is proposed by combining signal attenuation, and time of arrival in this paper.

Keywords

cellular radio; direction-of-arrival estimation; radio direction-finding; time-of-arrival estimation; angle of arrival technique; cellular network; locating mobile station; location identification; time difference of arrival techniques; time of arrival techniques; Attenuation; Base stations; Goniometers; Land mobile radio cellular systems; Maximum likelihood estimation; Mobile computing; Position measurement; Radio transmitters; Time difference of arrival; Time measurement; Cellular Network; Location Identification; Mobile Station;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Future Computer and Communication, 2009. ICFCC 2009. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpar

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3591-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICFCC.2009.73

Filename

5189849