Direct Wideband Coherent Localization by Distributed Antenna Arrays

Sensors

卷:19

PetarM. Djurić¹  Miljko Erić²  Miloš Janjić²  Nenad Vukmirović² 

[1] Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stony Brook University, New York, NY 11794, USA;

[2] School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia;

关键词: wideband direct position estimation;    distributed antenna array;    spatial coherence;    phase of arrival;    indoor localization;    5g;    mmwave;    massive mimo;   

DOI  :  10.3390/s19204582

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

We address wideband direct coherent localization of a radio transmitter by a distributed antenna array in a multipath scenario with spatially-coherent line-of-sight (LoS) signal components. Such a signal scenario is realistic in small cells, especially indoors in the mmWave range. The system model considers collocated time and phase synchronized receiving front-ends with antennas distributed in 3D space at known locations connected to the front-ends via calibrated coaxial cables or analog radio frequency over fiber links. The signal model assumes spherical wavefronts. We propose two ML-type algorithms (for known and unknown transmitter waveforms) and a subspace-based SCM-MUSIC algorithm for wideband direct coherent position estimation. We demonstrate the performance of the methods by Monte Carlo simulations. The results show that even in multipath environments, it is possible to achieve localization accuracy that is much better (by two to three orders of magnitude) than the carrier wavelength. They also suggest that the methods that do not exploit knowledge of the waveform have mean-squared errors approaching the Cramér−Rao bound.

【 授权许可】

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