A Testbed for Evaluation of the Effects of Multipath on Performance of TOA-based Indoor Geolocation Jie He, Student Member, IEEE, Kaveh Pahlavan, Fellow, IEEE, Shen Li, Student Member, IEEE, and Qin Wang Presented by Yishuang Geng
RSS based localization
TOA based localization
Why we choose TOA? 1)GPS doesn’t work in indoor environment 2)RSS based localization doesn’t have good precision Application Shopping center Airport Hospital Factories Museum Why we build testbed? 1)Repeatable and controllable 2)Performance evaluation before deployement 3)Facilitate algorithm design 4)Disadvantage of transmitter/receiver taken into account
Multipath condition
Physical scenario of multipath Free space Line of sight Non Line of sight(a)Detected direct path(DDP) (b)Undetected direct path(UDP)
Overall architecture of the testbed
Emulate Channel Model: Channel emulator
Real time Simulate up to 8 wireless channels Multiple fading models 70MHz bandwidth 1ns time domain resolution Intel core I7 with 8 high speed FPGA board Running Linux Ubuntu
Ray tracing
Testbed implementation Emulated Impulse Response NanoLOC Nodes PROPSim C8 Server
Measurement scenarios Free space: inside wireless chamber LOS: Room 233, 2 nd floor, AK building NLOS-DDP: Room 320a, 3 rd floor, AK building NLOS-UDP: Corridor 3 rd floor, AK building
Ranging algorithm
Localization algorithm
Performance evaluation --- Ranging
Performance evaluation --- Localization
Conclusion The testbed can evaluate the performance of TOA-based indoor geolocation system in visible, controllable and repeatable emulated channel. The emulated performances are close to the performance of field test, that validates the effectiveness of the testbed in performance evaluation of TOA-based indoor geolocation.
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