Track initiation for blind mobile terminal position tracking using multipath propagation Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:5719625, abstract = {Blind localization and tracking of mobile terminals in urban scenarios is an important requirement for offering new location based services, handling emergency cases of non-subscribed users, public safety etc. In this context, we propose a track-before-detect scheme, taking explicit advantage of multipath propagation in an urban terrain by using a priori information about the known locations of the main scattering objects such as buildings. A ray-tracing technique allows the prediction of the directional and temporal structure of the received multipath components for an arbitrary transmitter position. We consider a single observing station where the direction and the relative time of arrival of the received multipath components can be estimated by an antenna array. By a likelihood function, which is algorithmically defined for a randomly distributed set of potential transmitter positions, these measurements are compared with those being expected by ray tracing. This likelihood function is the key component of a track-before-detect scheme providing initial state estimates for mobile transmitter tracking using a particle filtering technique.}, author = {Algeier, V. and Demissie, B. and Koch, W. and Thoma, R.}, booktitle = {Information Fusion, 2008 11th International Conference on}, citeulike-article-id = {5719625}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICIF.2008.4632249}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4632249}, doi = {10.1109/ICIF.2008.4632249}, journal = {Information Fusion, 2008 11th International Conference on}, keywords = {array-processing, array-signal-processing, localization, multipath, ray-tracing, source-localization}, pages = {1--7}, posted-at = {2009-09-03 21:29:32}, priority = {2}, title = {Track initiation for blind mobile terminal position tracking using multipath propagation}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICIF.2008.4632249}, year = {2008} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:5719625 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5719625 N2 - Blind localization and tracking of mobile terminals in urban scenarios is an important requirement for offering new location based services, handling emergency cases of non-subscribed users, public safety etc. In this context, we propose a track-before-detect scheme, taking explicit advantage of multipath propagation in an urban terrain by using a priori information about the known locations of the main scattering objects such as buildings. A ray-tracing technique allows the prediction of the directional and temporal structure of the received multipath components for an arbitrary transmitter position. We consider a single observing station where the direction and the relative time of arrival of the received multipath components can be estimated by an antenna array. By a likelihood function, which is algorithmically defined for a randomly distributed set of potential transmitter positions, these measurements are compared with those being expected by ray tracing. This likelihood function is the key component of a track-before-detect scheme providing initial state estimates for mobile transmitter tracking using a particle filtering technique. JF - Information Fusion, 2008 11th International Conference on EP - 7 TI - Track initiation for blind mobile terminal position tracking using multipath propagation T2 - Information Fusion, 2008 11th International Conference on SP - 1 KW - array-processing KW - array-signal-processing KW - localization KW - multipath KW - ray-tracing KW - source-localization AU - Algeier, V AU - Demissie, B AU - Koch, W AU - Thoma, R PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICIF.2008.4632249 ER -