The positioning of the mobile has received considerable attention in the 802.15.4a WPAN. Local positioning will be one of the most exciting features of the next generation of wireless system. In this thesis, NLOS error mitigation algorithm in indoor n...
The positioning of the mobile has received considerable attention in the 802.15.4a WPAN. Local positioning will be one of the most exciting features of the next generation of wireless system. In this thesis, NLOS error mitigation algorithm in indoor networks has been proposed. The proposed algorithm is TDOA based SX method.All transmitters and receivers in TOA geolocation system have to be precisely synchronized. However such a precise synchronization is not required in TDOA geolocation system. And the SX method has an advantage to estimate the location simply. But the SX method presents a different performance according to the distribution of position of sensors and the mobile. If the sensors are linearly located, we can't estimate the MS location. By proposing using a modified version of the proposed method that determines (the distance from the origin to the MS) differently, the stability of the system has been substantially increased.The major sources of error in the mobile location are measurement noise and NLOS propagation error. As NLOS error usually has an unknown distribution with a positive mean, NLOS error is the dominant error in location estimation [1]. So it is important to mitigate NLOS error in a positioning system. A RWGH algorithm mitigates NLOS error effectively. But to mitigate NLOS error using this algorithme, it is needed that the number of sensors is greater than the minimum number required. So a RWGH algorithm is proposed in this thesis for TDOA geolocation system to mitigate the NLOS error, based on the weighted residuals for adequate BS combinations. The proposed scheme reduces the NLOS error effectively.