Sounding, Channel Characterisation and Cellular Handset Positioning in a Large Indoor Environment at 2 GHz

Author

Kassem, W.I. ; Strangeways, Hal J. ; Ghogho, Mounir

Author_Institution

Sch. of Eng., Durham Univ., Durham

fYear

2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The problem of the localization of a mobile phone in a large indoor environment will be investigated in this paper. We will study the applicability of super resolution direction finding (SRDF) techniques to estimate the direction of arrival (DOA) of the line of sight (LOS) and then using triangulation technique to determine the exact location of the mobile handset. The SRDF methods are chosen because the positioning is to be accomplished independent of the service provider and mobile user. This prevents the use of other techniques such as Time of Arrival (TOA) or Global Positioning Satellite (GPS). Analysis of propagation measurements made in such environment will be provided to support our study.

Keywords

cellular radio; direction-of-arrival estimation; mobile handsets; Global Positioning Satellite; cellular handset positioning; channel sounding; direction of arrival estimation; frequency 2 GHz; large indoor environment; line of sight; mobile phone; mobile user; propagation measurements; service provider; super resolution direction finding techniques; time of arrival estimation; triangulation technique; DOA; LOS; signal propagation in indoor channels; statistics; triangulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Antennas and Propagation, 2007. EuCAP 2007. The Second European Conference on

Print_ISBN

978-0-86341-842-6

Type

conf

Filename

4458876