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ARPAP: A Novel Antenna-Radiation-Pattern-Aware Power-Based Positioning in RF System
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing IEEE Trans. on Mobile Comput. Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on. 20(3):816-829 Mar, 2021
Subject
Computing and Processing
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Signal Processing and Analysis
Antenna radiation patterns
Power measurement
Estimation
Fading channels
Antenna measurements
Antenna arrays
Positioning
received signal strength indicator
line of sight
ranging
antenna radiation pattern
Language
ISSN
1536-1233
1558-0660
2161-9875
Abstract
Traditional power-based localization methods suffer from low accuracy in the practical application environment. The main challenges are the antenna directivity and fading effect. Conventional methods assume omnidirectional antenna directivity such that the solution is the intersections of multiple circle-shape contours. This strong assumption results in significant localization error in practical non-isotropic antenna applications. In this article, a novel antenna radiation-pattern-aware power-based positioning (ARPAP) scheme is proposed. It reduces the antenna directivity effect by including the antenna pattern into the localization system model. It reduces the bias error that introduced by power measurement through estimating the line-of-sight (LoS) component in received signal strength (RSS). Moreover, the error mode for the proposed ARPAP system, along with the theoretical limit, Cramer-Rao Bound (CRB), and bias of the proposed positioning system are derived. The Pearson correlation coefficient between the proposed error model and simulation result shows a high similarity score. The proposed positioning scheme and analytic error model are instantiated for the cellular network. Both analytical model and simulation results demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method over traditional methods.