To address the difficulty in calculating nonlinear equation of time difference arrival (TDOA) positioning, as well problem measurement error hybrid arrival/angle (TDOA/AOA) positioning algorithm, an improved sparrow search algorithm is proposed to optimize and optimization mechanism retained on basis improving performance original algorithm. The maximum likelihood estimation method used calcula...

Wireless location has become one of the important technologies of wireless sensor network application. Due to the underground wireless location affected by various factors, the positioning system cannot meet the actual demand. In this paper, Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) and Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) location technologies have been investigated, then various impact factors o...

Time difference of arrival (TDOA) is commonly used to estimate the azimuth of a source in a microphone array. The most common methods to estimate TDOA are based on finding extrema in generalized crosscorrelation waveforms. In this paper we apply microphone array techniques to a manikin head. By considering the entire cross-correlation waveform we achieve azimuth prediction accuracy that exceeds...

This tutorial involves implementing sonar processing algorithms and applying them to real underwater hydrophone data collected in the ocean. The goal of the tutorial is to learn how to apply the time-difference of arrival (TDOA) method to acoustic data recorded on two hydrophones to obtain a bearing estimate. TDOA processing is a classic passive sonar problem, and is also forms basis for many o...

Estimating time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA) remains a challenging task when acoustic environments are reverberant and noisy. Blind channel identification approaches for TDOA estimation explicitly model multipath reflections and have been demonstrated to be effective in dealing with reverberation. Unfortunately, existing blind channel identification algorithms are sensitive to ambient noise. Th...

This paper covers location determination in wireless cellular networks based on time difference of arrival (TDoA) measurements in a factor graphs framework. The resulting nonlinear estimation problem of the localization process for the mobile station cannot be solved analytically. The well-known iterative Gauss-Newton method as standard solution fails to converge for certain geometric constella...

The time-of-arrival (TOA), time-difference-ofarrival (TDOA) and signal strength (SS) methods have been widely accepted as three principal techniques for positioning a mobile station (MS) in a wireless communication system. To the best of our knowledge, previous studies tend to treat these methods separately, and less analytical results on their relationship have been reported. In this paper, th...

This paper presents passive radar emitter localization using the Time-Difference-Of-Arrival (TDOA) technique from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) working in conjunction with a fixed/mobile station (such as a shipborne/land-based station) to geolocate a radar emitter to fulfill maritime and littoral area surveillance. Instead of using multiple stationary sensors, multiple TDOA measurements are o...

In this paper, we propose a short ranging middleware built on WUSB (Wireless USB) over WBAN (Wireless Body Area Networks) hierarchical protocol for body sensor networks. The proposed middleware platform is composed of time-synchronization and optimal short ranging solution. The optimal ranging solution is proposed through comparison of experiment results from ToA (Time of Arrival), TDoA (Time D...