Non-line-of-sight detection based on TOA and signal strength

This paper addresses the problem of identifying NLOS propagation by applying the statistical decision theory. A time-of-arrival (TOA) based method is developed under idealized conditions to provide a performance reference. In the presence of both TOA and received signal strength (RSS) measurements, a joint identification method is derived to efficiently exploit both the TOA and RSS measurements. Analytical expressions for the probability of detection (POD) and the probability of false alarm (PFA) are derived. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed methods perform well and the joint TOA and RSS based method outperforms the TOA based methods considerably. It is also shown that the analytical results agree with the simulated ones.