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Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) or Bluetooth Smart is a wireless device that can be connected to many wireless devices with many applications. In this paper, we analyzed the accuracy of BLE for measuring distance in order to build the indoor positioning application. The problem of BLE in distance measurement and indoor position are low accuracy that is caused by the fading effect. We discussed about the...
Approximate computing is gaining a lot of traction due to its potential for improving performance and consequently, energy efficiency. This project explores the potential for approximating locks. We start out with the observation that many applications can tolerate occasional skipping of computations done inside a critical section protected by a lock. This means that for certain critical sections,...
We consider a range estimation algorithm based on the time-of-arrival differences between multipath replicas of a signal transmitted by an anchor node of known location to a silent node that needs to localize itself. We consider the geometry of the problem in the simplified case of a constant sound speed profile (SSP), and argue that the more realistic case of a non-constant SSP can be still tackled...
InSAeS4 is an Italian X band airborne SAR system, recently upgraded to a multi-antenna interferometric configuration. The system is able to acquire single pass across-track and along-track multi-baseline data with different acquisition modes characterized by different geometric resolutions and across-track swaths. In recent work we have analyzed the high resolution InSAeS4 products (obtained by transmitting...
Collecting data at regular time nowadays is ubiquitous. The most widely used type of data that is being collected and analyzed is financial data and sensor readings. Various businesses have realized that financial time series analysis is a powerful analytical tool that can lead to competitive advantages. Likewise, sensor networks generate time series and if they are properly analyzed can give a better...
The Weighted Center Localization (WCL), which is a classical localization scheme for the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), can't decrease the average localization errors and the maximum errors simultaneously due to the fixed weight argument. Improving the localization accuracy of WCL is to decrease the distance measurement errors or to set a proper dynamic weight argument. We have already improved the...
Wireless location is one of the core technologies of Wireless Sensor Network. In many applications, the accuracy of the location is the precondition of the useful of data information the node collected. Under the premise of cost limits, improving the accuracy of wireless sensor node position has crucial significance. After analyzing reasons of the location weakness of Dv-Distance algorithm due to...
The location accuracy is one of the important parameters characterizing the performance of a lightning location system. It is also one of the most difficult to determine as the actual location of the discharge being located must be accurately known to achieve a reliable assessment of the real error. Among all the measurement techniques which can be used to collect such ground truth data, none can...
Localization accuracy with Ultra-Wideband (UWB) in Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) environments, which most commonly exist in indoor constructions, is much lower than that in Line-of-Sight (LOS) environments. In this paper, we propose a collaborative localization algorithm to improve the localization accuracy in NLOS environments by maximally utilizing the LOS links among nodes with unknown locations, and...
Frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) based ranging system have been widely used in many on-chip system applications. The conventional signal processing methods for this kind of ranging system were mainly focused on the frequency-domain, analyzing the spectrum of the beat frequency. In that case, the increasing of frequency deviation for the modulated signal was usually used to improve the accuracy...
Pulse trains from dual combs with different repetition rates are coupled and directed onto a target for simultaneous absolute distance measurement. Non-ambiguity range extension is immune to drift and accuracy is about 100 nm.
This paper presents a ranging approach using an improved preamble sequence of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) signal for 60 GHz system. The performance of range estimation with OFDM modulation under 60GHz channel is analyzed emphatically. In order to utilize the time-frequency characteristics of OFDM signal in the ranging system, the subcarriers phase difference algorithm with an...
A 60 GHz ranging model is established and a strongest path search ranging algorithm based on beamforming is proposed. The range error caused by a non-line of sight (NLOS) channel is mitigated by modeling the corresponding delay bias. Outlier detection is employed to improve the accuracy. Performance results are presented which show that 60 GHz ranging can achieve centimeter level accuracy in indoor...
An impulse radio (IR) 60 GHz positioning system is proposed to provide accurate positioning. Two typical IR signals for positioning systems, namely polarity codes and pulse position modulation (PPM), are considered. The ranging and positioning accuracy and reliable distance in residential environments are investigated. Both line-of-sight (LOS) and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) channels are examined. Simulation...
Beacon allows Bluetooth [1] devices to broadcast and receive tiny information within short distance, which consists of two parts: a broadcaster (beacon device) and a receiver (smartphone app). So, it is being widely used in URL (Uniform Resource Locator) broadcast, distance measurement, localization etc. However, because of its deviation, measured distance value is not always accuracy. In this paper,...
In this paper, the waveforms and signal processing for a high-accuracy X-Band microwave ranging system that enables a non-cooperative, open-loop coherent distributed radio frequency transmission system are presented. This sub-centimeter-accurate ranging system leverages a Two-Tone Continuous Wave (TTCW) signal as opposed to the conventional Linear-Frequency Modulated (LFM) waveform for ranging. Measurements...
Impulse radio ultra-wideband (IR-UWB) ranging and localization have recently received significant attention due to the high accuracy and precision. This high accuracy can be exploited for many location aware applications in a wide variety of environments. Although most research efforts have focused on location-aware applications for indoor or outdoor environments, there are other environments, such...
Wideband localization commonly relies on accurate range information extracted from received waveforms, which can be obtained via hard-decision or soft-decision ranging. While hard-decision ranging based on energy samples has received much attention because of its low-complexity, soft-decision ranging based on waveform samples can significantly improve the localization accuracy at the cost of higher...
In the context of radiolocation in Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs), nodes positions can be estimated through time-based ranging algorithms. For instance, the distance separating a couple of nodes can be estimated accurately by measuring the Round Trip Time of Flight of an Impulse Radio Ultra Wideband (IR-UWB) link. This measure usually relies on two or three messages transactions. Such exchanges...
Indoor localization systems become more interesting for researchers because of the attractiveness of business cases in various application fields. A WiFi-based passive localization system can provide user location information to third-party providers of positioning services. However, indoor localization techniques are prone to multipath and Non-Line Of Sight (NLOS) propagation, which lead to significant...
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