Digital multimedia broadcasting signal is promised to be a wireless positioning signal. This paper mainly studies a multimedia broadcasting technology, named China mobile multimedia broadcasting (CMMB), in the context of positioning. Theoretical and practical analysis on the CMMB signal suggests that the existing CMMB signal does not have the meter positioning capability. So, the CMMB system ha...

Technische Fakultät Institut fur Informatik Telecommunications Engineering Tracking a Mobile Receiver using the Unscented Kalman Filter by Joan Bordoy Andreu Indoor localization based on Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) and Frequency Difference of Arrival (FDOA) has been a promising subject of study the last years. In this thesis, a moving target is tracked by receiving discrete signals from s...

This paper addresses the source location problem by using time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA) measurements. The two-stage weighted least squares (TWLS) algorithm has been widely used in TDOA location. However, estimation accuracy of is poor and bias significant when measurement noise large. Owing to nonlinear nature system model, we reformulate localization as a constrained derive theoretical est...

Time Difference Of Arrival (TDOA) estimates can be used for passive acoustic multiple sound source localization with microphone arrays. The TDOA estimation is based on the cross-correlation function of two signals of a microphone pair. Existing systems assume only one dominant sound source per analysis frame rejecting the localization information of other active sources present in the acoustic ...

We present an energy-efficient wireless sensor network (WSN) architecture tailored for illegal deforestation detection. Illegal deforestation is a world-wide problem which may be prevented through improved monitoring of forested areas utilizing sensor networks equipped with chain-saw detection. Additional to detection, we identify sound source localization and sensor node localization as essent...

This paper proposes an original Three-Dimensional (3-D) positioning technique based on an enhanced Chan method by investigating the performance of position estimation method by Time Difference Of Arrival (TDOA). The studied configurations assume that each mobile locates itself and so it receives and analyses signal from multiple transmitters, namely Base Station (BS). The approach is non-iterat...

Research of target localization and tracking is always a remarkable problem in the application wireless sensor networks (WSNs) technology. There are many kinds research applications tracking, such as Angle Arrival (AOA), Time (TOA), Difference (TDOA). The accuracy for TOA, TDOA, AOA better than RSS. However, required devices more expensive In addition, computational complexity also complicated ...

In multidimensional source localization based on time difference of arrival (TDOA), it is difficult to identify the direct-path TDOA among all TDOA estimates of one sensor pair and to find the corresponding TDOA values belonging to the same source among different sensor pairs. In this paper, we present a graph based approach to solve this problem. It relies on the concept of consistent graph wh...

We are developing an acoustic habitat-monitoring sensor network that recognizes and locates specific animal calls in real time. In this paper, we investigate the system requirements of such a real-time acoustic monitoring network. We propose a system architecture and a set of lightweight collaborative signal processing algorithms that achieve real-time behavior while minimizing inter-node commu...