Decision theoretic framework for NLOS identification

Author

Borrás, Joan ; Hatrack, Paul ; Mandayam, Narayan B.

Author_Institution

Wireless Inf. Network Lab., Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1998

fDate

18-21 May 1998

Firstpage

1583

Abstract

This paper presents the problem of identifying whether a received signal at a base station is due to a line-of-sight (LOS) transmission or not (NLOS). This is a first step towards estimating the mobile station´s location. We formulate the NLOS identification problem as a binary hypothesis test where the range measurements are modeled as being corrupted by additive noise, with different probability distributions depending on the hypothesis. We solve the binary hypothesis test under several assumptions, proposing appropriate decision criteria

Keywords

decision theory; land mobile radio; measurement errors; noise; parameter estimation; probability; LOS; NLOS identification; additive noise; base station; binary hypothesis test; decision theory; line-of-sight transmission; mobile radio systems; mobile station location estimation; nonline-of-sight transmission; probability distributions; range measurements; received signal identification; Additive noise; Base stations; Error correction; History; Laboratories; Land mobile radio; Noise measurement; Signal processing; Testing; Time measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 1998. VTC 98. 48th IEEE

Conference_Location

Ottawa, Ont.

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4320-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETEC.1998.686556

Filename

686556