Direct Wideband Coherent Localization by Distributed Antenna Arrays

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 c...

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Published in:Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2019-10, Vol.19 (20), p.4582
Main Authors: Vukmirović, Nenad, Erić, Miljko, Janjić, Miloš, Djurić, Petar M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accuracy
Algorithms
Antenna arrays
Antennas
Broadband
Coaxial cables
Coherence
Communication
distributed antenna array
indoor localization
Line of sight
Localization
Location based services
massive mimo
Millimeter waves
mmwave
Musical performances
phase of arrival
Propagation
Radio transmitters
spatial coherence
Time synchronization
Transmitters
Wave fronts
Waveforms
wideband direct position estimation
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1424-8220
1424-8220
DOI:10.3390/s19204582