Dirty templates based indoor localization for IR-UWB mobile agents

Author

Chiti, Francesco ; Fantacci, Romano ; Morosi, Simone ; Niccolai, Lorenzo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Telecommun., Florence Univ., Florence

Volume

1

fYear

2008

fDate

10-12 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

205

Lastpage

208

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Networking (WSNing) is drawing the attention of both scientific and industrial communities as it represents a low cost and effective approach to achieve intelligent environments. Recently, IEEE 802.15.4a standard showed IR-UWB technology to be an efficient candidate for PHY layer, bringing the additional benefit of a localization capability. This paper deals with a localization scheme based on an innovative Time of Arrival ranging procedure, specifically designed for UWB WSNs in which several mobile nodes interact with a fixed infrastructure. Achieved results point out the suitability of the proposed approach for a couple of realistic scenarios, despite the fact the ranging accuracy is reduced by the influence of short and long term fading effects.

Keywords

broadband networks; indoor radio; mobile radio; wireless sensor networks; IEEE 802.15.4a standard; IR-UWB mobile agents; dirty templates; fixed infrastructure; indoor localization; intelligent environments; wireless sensor networking; Communication standards; Costs; Fading; Intelligent networks; Intelligent sensors; Mobile agents; Physical layer; Protocols; Ultra wideband technology; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultra-Wideband, 2008. ICUWB 2008. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hannover

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2216-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1827-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICUWB.2008.4653319

Filename

4653319