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- Title
A Hybrid RSS/TOA Method for 3D Positioning in an Indoor Environment.
- Authors
Tiwari, Smita; Wang, Donglin; Fattouche, Michel; Ghannouchi, Fadhel
- Abstract
This paper investigates 3D positioning in an indoor line of sight (LOS) and nonline of sight (NLOS) combined environment. It is a known fact that time-of-arrival-(TOA-) based positioning outperforms other techniques in LOS environments; however, multipath in an indoor environment, especially NLOS multipath, significantly decreases the accuracy of TOA positioning. On the other hand, received-signal-strength-(RSS-) based positioning is not affected so much by NLOS multipath as long as the propagation attenuation can be correctly estimated and the multipath effects have been compensated for. Based on this fact, a hybrid weighted least square (HWLS) RSS/TOA method is proposed for target positioning in an indoor LOS/NLOS environment. The identification of LOS/NLOS path is implemented by using Nakagami distribution. An experiment is conducted in the iRadio lab, in the ICT building at the University of Calgary, in order to (i) demonstrate the availability of Nakagami distribution for the identification of LOS and NLOS path, (ii) estimate the pass loss exponent for RSS technique, and (iii) verify our proposed scheme.
- Subjects
HYBRID systems; RSS feeds; THREE-dimensional display systems; PARAMETER estimation; SIGNAL processing; LEAST squares; INFORMATION &; communication technologies
- Publication
ISRN Signal Processing, 2012, p1
- ISSN
2090-5041
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5402/2012/503707