Position Location Techniques and Applications

This book is the definitive guide to the techniques and applications of position location, covering both terrestrial and satellite systems. It gives all the techniques, theoretical models, and algorithms that engineers need to improve their current location schemes and to develop future location algorithms and systems.

Comprehensive coverage is given to system design trade-offs, complexity issues, and the design of efficient positioning algorithms to enable the creation of high-performance location positioning systems. Traditional methods are also reexamined in the context of the challenges posed by reconfigurable and multihop networks. Applications discussed include wireless networks (WiFi, ZigBee, UMTS, and DVB networks), cognitive radio, sensor networks and multihop networks.

Features

Contains a complete guide to models, techniques, and applications of position location

Includes applications to wireless networks, demonstrating the relevance of location positioning to these "hot" areas in research and development

Covers system design trade-offs and the design of efficient positioning algorithms, enabling the creation of future location positioning systems

Provides a theoretical underpinning for understanding current position location algorithms, giving researchers a foundation to develop future algorithms

David Muñoz is Director and César Vargas is a member of the Center for Electronics and Telecommunications, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico. Frantz Bouchereau is a senior communications software developer at The MathWorks Inc. in Natick, MA. Rogerio Enríquez-Caldera is at Instituto Nacional de Atrofisica, Optica y Electronica (INAOE), Puebla, Mexico.

Contains a complete guide to models, techniques and applications of position locationIncludes applications to wireless networks (WiFi, ZigBee, DVB networks), cognitive radio, sensor networks and reconfigurable and multi-hop networks, demonstrating the relevance of location positioning to these ‘hot’ areas in research and developmentCovers system design trade-offs, and the design of efficient positioning algorithms enables the creation of future location positioning systemsProvides a theoretical underpinning for understanding current position location algorithms, giving researchers a foundation to develop future algorithms

The PL need and Historical Developments; PL requirements and Limitation; Terrestrial and Satellite Scenarios; Current and Potential Applications; AOA measurements; Nonparametric Methods for Estimation of AOA; Parametric Methods for Estimation of AOA; TOA and TDOA measurements; Range Estimation Based on Receive Signal strength (RSS); Signal strength (RSS); The Multilateration Problem; Geometrical multilateration; Statistical multilateration; Location estimation in multi hop scenarios; Performance assessment of location estimation systems; Single hop and relational scenarios; Multi Hop Scenarios; From Cellular to Reconfigurable Networks; Mobility in Wireless Networks; Towards the Cognitive Radio Paradigm for Position Location; Cellular Systems; Local / Indoor Network Scenario; Mesh Systems; Satellite Positioning; Structure of a System for Satellite Positioning; Fundamental Concepts Involved; Applications; Sources of Errors; Trends and Comparison; Large scale fading; Small scale fading; Compound fading models