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In two-way time-of-arrival (TOA) systems, a user device (UD) obtains its position and timing information by round-trip communications to a number of anchor nodes (ANs) at known locations. Compared with the one-way TOA technique, the two-way…

It is an essential technique for the moving user nodes (UNs) with clock offset and clock skew to resolve the joint localization and synchronization (JLAS) problem. Existing iterative maximum likelihood methods using sequential one-way…

In a time-of-arrival (TOA) or pseudorange based positioning system, user location is obtained by observing multiple anchor nodes (AN) at known positions. Utilizing more than one positioning systems, e.g., combining Global Positioning System…

Doppler shift is an important measurement for localization and synchronization (LAS), and is available in various practical systems. Existing studies on LAS techniques in a time division broadcast LAS system (TDBS) only use sequential…

In two-way time-of-arrival (TOA) systems, a user device (UD) obtains its position by round-trip communications to a number of anchor nodes (ANs) at known locations. The objective function of the maximum likelihood (ML) method for two-way…

In this article, we design a new time-of-arrival (TOA) system for simultaneous user device (UD) localization and synchronization with a periodic asymmetric ranging network, namely PARN. The PARN includes one primary anchor node (PAN)…

In this paper, a single Unmanned-Aerial-Vehicle (UAV)-aided localization algorithm which uses both Doppler and Time of Arrival (ToA) measurements is presented. In contrast to Doppler-based localization algorithms which are based on…

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.…

This paper studies the positioning problem based on two-way time-of-arrival (TW-TOA) measurements in asynchronous wireless sensor networks. Since the optimal estimator for this problem involves difficult nonconvex optimization, we propose…

In this work, a system scheme is proposed for tracking a radio emitting target moving in two-dimensional space. The localization is based on the use of biased time-of-arrival (TOA) measurements obtained at two asynchronous receivers, each…

Positioning with one single communication between base stations and user devices can effectively save air time and thus expand the user volume to infinite. However, this usually demands accurate synchronization between base stations.…

This paper presents CLEAR -- a closed-form localization estimator with a reduced sensor network. The proposed method is a computationally efficient, two-stage estimator that fuses time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA) and…

High time resolution of ultra wideband (UWB) signals facilitates very precise positioning capabilities based on time-of-arrival (TOA) measurements. Although the theoretical lower bound for TOA estimation can be achieved by the maximum…

A robust and accurate positioning solution is required to increase the safety in GPS-denied environments. Although there is a lot of available research in this area, little has been done for confined environments such as tunnels. Therefore,…

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…

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…

Localizing moving targets in unknown harsh environments has always been a severe challenge. This letter investigates a novel localization system based on multi-agent networks, where multiple agents serve as mobile anchors broadcasting their…

In this paper, a 2-stage robust distributed algorithm is proposed for cooperative sensor network localization using time of arrival (TOA) data without identification of non-line of sight (NLOS) links. In the first stage, to overcome the…

As the cost and technical difficulty of jamming devices continue to decrease, jamming has become one of the major threats to positioning service. Unfortunately, most conventional technologies are vulnerable to jamming attacks due to their…

This letter proposes an algebraic solution for the problem of 3-D source localization utilizing the minimum number of measurements, i.e., one Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) and one Angle of Arrival (AOA) pair. The proposed method employs…