• DocumentCode
    54402
  • Title

    Positioning Based on Signals of Opportunity

  • Author

    Coluccia, Angelo ; Ricciato, Fabio ; Ricci, Giuseppe

  • Author_Institution
    Dipt. Ing. dell´Innovazione, Univ. of Salento, Lecce, Italy
  • Volume
    18
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    Feb-14
  • Firstpage
    356
  • Lastpage
    359
  • Abstract
    A novel approach to opportunistic positioning based on timing measurements is presented. The asynchronous radio transmissions from fixed stations and from mobile GPS-equipped nodes are jointly exploited to cooperatively localize a blind node. To this end, a weighted least-squares (WLS) estimator is proposed; its effectiveness is illustrated via simulations in a realistic scenario.
  • Keywords
    Global Positioning System; direction-of-arrival estimation; position control; timing; asynchronous radio transmissions; fixed stations; mobile GPS-equipped nodes; opportunistic positioning; timing measurements; weighted least-squares estimator; Clocks; Equations; Global Positioning System; Mathematical model; Receivers; Signal to noise ratio; Timing; Opportunistic positioning; asynchronous systems; localization; time difference of arrival (TDOA); weighted least-squares (WLS);
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Communications Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1089-7798
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LCOMM.2013.123013.132297
  • Filename
    6708132