Strategies to design and deploy Mode-S multilateration systems

In this paper, we study and develop some strategies to design and deploy Mode-S multilateration systems. These strategies are based on metaheuristic optimization techniques, like Genetic Algorithm (GA) and are intended to obtain useful parameters for an optimal system configuration that provides acceptable performance levels. Furthermore, these strategies are able to evaluate and improve previous system designs. Parameters such as the number of stations, the system geometry, the kind of measurements to be used and system accuracy are obtained taking into account requirements such as the line of sight, the probability of detection and the accuracy levels.