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Emerging wireless applications are requiring ever more accurate location-positioning from sensor measurements. In this paper, we develop sensor selection strategies for 3D wireless positioning based on time of arrival (TOA) and received…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-01 Myeung Suk Oh , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Taejoon Kim , David J. Love , James V. Krogmeier , Christopher G. Brinton

Location-based services such as autonomous vehicles, drones, and indoor positioning require precise and scalable distance estimates. The bias and variance of range estimators inherently influence the resulting localization quality. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-23 Patrick Rathje , Olaf Landsiedel

Accurate node localization is vital for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). Current methods like Time of Arrival (TOA) can estimate node positions using imprecise baseplates and achieve the Cram\'er-Rao lower bound (CRLB) accuracy. In…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Xinkai Yu , Yang Zheng , Min Sheng , Yan Shi , Jiandong Li

This paper considers N mobile nodes that move together in the vicinity of each other, whose initial poses as well as subsequent movements must be accurately tracked in real time with the assist of M(>=3) reference nodes. By engaging the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-08-04 Xingkai Bao , Jing Li

Time-of-flight-based ranging among transceivers with different clocks requires protocols that accommodate varying rates of the clocks. Double-sided two-way ranging (DS-TWR) is widely adopted as a standard protocol due to its accuracy;…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-09 Mohammed Ayman Shalaby , Charles Champagne Cossette , James Richard Forbes , Jerome Le Ny

The Local Position Measurement system (LPM) is one of the most precise systems for 3D position estimation. It is able to operate in- and outdoor and updates at a rate up to 1000 measurements per second. Previous scientific publications…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-07 Juri Sidorenko , Norbert Scherer-Negenborn , Eckart Michaelsen , Michael Arens

Comparing data defined over space and time is notoriously hard, because it involves quantifying both spatial and temporal variability, while at the same time taking into account the chronological structure of data. Dynamic Time Warping…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-12 Hicham Janati , Marco Cuturi , Alexandre Gramfort

Among the various Ultra-wideband (UWB) ranging methods, the absence of uplink communication or centralized computation makes downlink time-difference-of-arrival (DL-TDOA) localization the most suitable for large-scale industrial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-19 Sagnik Bhattacharya , Junyoung Choi , Joohyun Lee

Millimeter-accuracy Ultra-Wideband (UWB) positioning systems using the Time Difference Of Arrival (TDOA) algorithm are able to be utilized in military and many other important applications. Previous research on UWB positioning system has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-30 Sheng Jiang , Matthew Trinkle , Hongyuan Wang

The following paper presents an adaptive anchor pairs selection method for ultra-wideband (UWB) Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) based positioning systems. The method divides the area covered by the system into several zones and assigns…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Marcin Kolakowski

This paper investigates unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) localization using time difference of arrival (TDOA) measurements under mixed line-of-sight (LOS) and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) conditions. A 3D TDOA Cram\'er-Rao lower bound (CRLB) model…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Cole Dickerson , Saad Masrur , Jonah Dickerson , Özgür Özdemir , Ismail Güvenç

In a time-division broadcast positioning system (TDBPS), localizing mobile targets using classical time difference of arrival (TDOA) methods poses significant challenges. Concurrent TDOA measurements are infeasible because targets receive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Chenxin Tu , Xiaowei Cui , Gang Liu , Sihao Zhao , Mingquan Lu

Today, many applications such as production or rescue settings rely on highly accurate entity positioning. Advanced Time of Flight (ToF) based positioning methods provide highaccuracy localization of entities. A key challenge for ToF based…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Maximilian von Tschirschnitz , Marcel Wagner , Marc-Oliver Pahl , Georg Carle

In this paper, a novel cooperation-aided localization and tracking approach, suitable for terahertz (THz) wireless systems is presented. It combines an angle of arrival (AoA) tracking algorithm with the two-way time of arrival method, in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-21 Giorgos Stratidakis , Alexandros-Apostolos A. Boulogeorgos , Angeliki Alexiou

Precise localization is one key element of the Internet of Things (IoT). Especially concepts for position estimation when Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are unavailable have moved into the focus. One crucial component for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Thomas Maul , Sebastian Klob , Joerg Robert

Accurate and reliable localization is crucial for various wireless communication applications. Numerous studies have proposed accurate localization methods using hybrid received signal strength (RSS) and angle of arrival (AOA) measurements.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Weizhong Ding , Shengming Chang , Shudi Bao

This work performs the design, real-time hardware realization, and experimental evaluation of a positioning system by ultra-violet (UV) communication under photon-level signal detection. The positioning is based on time-difference of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-16 Shihui Yu , Chubing Lv , Yueke Yang , Yuchen Pan , Lei Sun , Juliang Cao , Ruihang Yu , Chen Gong , Wenqi Wu , Zhengyuan Xu

In a visible light positioning (VLP) system, a receiver can estimate its location based on signals transmitted by light emitting diodes (LEDs). In this manuscript, we investigate a quasi-synchronous VLP system, in which the LED transmitters…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-17 Ertan Kazikli , Sinan Gezici

In this paper localization using UWB positioning system and an inertial unit containing a single accelerometer is considered. The main part of the paper describes a novel algorithm for person localization. The algorithm is based on modified…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-01 Marcin Kolakowski

During this decade, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) brought an increasing interest in the industrial and research world. One of their applications is the indoor localization. The ranging, i.e. the distance evaluation mechanism between…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-03-23 Nezo Ibrahim Fofana , Adrien van den Bossche , Rejane Dalce , Thierry Val