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In this paper, a new positioning scheme with impulse postfix OFDM (IP-OFDM) systems is proposed for estimating the positional information of a user within a wireless local area network. In the proposed scheme, the channel information is estimated by the IP of the IP-OFDM symbol in the time domain, and then the round-trip time and the angle of signal arrival from a wireless terminal to an access point equipped with a uniform linear antenna array are investigated for time-of-arrival (TOA) and angle-of-arrival (AOA) estimation for a user. The position of the wireless terminal is finally estimated by combining the estimated TOA and AOA information. The performance of the proposed scheme is evaluated with computer simulations, and the error characteristics are analyzed with respect to the TOA error, and the AOA error influence on the positioning error. According to the simulation results, the positioning error of the proposed scheme can be reduced to some centimeters for high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The major influence on the positioning error comes from the TOA error in low SNR, while the AOA error has more influence on the positioning error in high SNR.
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The present research has been conducted by the research grant of Kwangwoon University in 2013. This research was supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), funded by the Ministry of Education (NRF-2013R1A1A2005157).
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Zhou, B., Jing, C. & Kim, Y. Joint TOA/AOA Positioning Scheme with IP-OFDM Systems. Wireless Pers Commun 75, 261–271 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-013-1361-z
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