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Research Online: Positioning with LTE signals

November 12, 2015  - By
Rover positions obtained with 2D LTE versus GPS track.

Rover positions obtained with 2D LTE versus GPS track.

Positioning with LTE Signals

An alternative to GNSS in urban canyons can be provided by signals from cellular base stations, particularly new signals from long-term evolution (LTE) networks, since LTE coverage will be high in cities. Wide LTE downlink bandwidth provides good resolution of multipath components, which also assists positioning.

A test used a universal software radio peripheral N210 synchronized to a GPS-locked Rubidium frequency standard. A personal computer stored LTE data samples together with GNSS sentences from a u-blox LEA-6T module. A Matlab-algorithm did the complete post-processing, extracting pseudoranges for the LTE base station and calculating the position solution.

Results of a car driven on an urban route show root-mean-square value of the absolute error using LTE compared to GPS position is 43 meters.

Positioning Using LTE Signals, by Fabian Knutti, Mischa Sabathy, Marco Driusso, Heinz Mathis, and Chris Marshall. Presented at the European Navigation Conference 2015.

Seamless Indoors

Sensor Augmented Indoor Navigation and Positioning, by M. Gemelli and Keith Nicholson, Bosch Sensortec. An overview of technologies that guide us indoors in a seamless and reliable manner, highlighting key requirements for motion and pressure sensing, low-power processing, efficient code design, wireless beaconing and map matching. Fusion software needs new data sources: Bluetooth low-energy, Wi-Fi fingerprinting, magnetic fingerprinting, ultrasound. Presented at ION GNSS+ 2015.

Disturbed Ionosphere

Mitigating satellite motion in GPS monitoring of traveling ionospheric disturbances (TIDs), by R.W. Penney and N.K. Jackson-Booth. Discusses the impact of satellite motion on the use of compact arrays of GPS receivers for estimating the velocity of travelling ionospheric disturbances (TIDs). It is shown that satellite motion has subtle effects upon standard techniques of waveform cross-correlation, or time-difference of arrival (TDOA), which can easily lead to spurious TID velocity estimates. In Radio Science, an AGU journal.