NLOS error mitigation in mobile location based on modified extended Kalman filter

Xin Zhou*, A-Long Jin, Qingmin Meng

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Geolocation and tracking of mobile objects is an important issue in wireless communication networks. Various methods have been devised and implemented to deal with such problems whose performance is particularly limited in non-line-of-sight propagation conditions. In this paper, we take advantage of the extended Kalman filter with some extensions, modifications and improvement of previous work to reduce the NLOS error in the location measurement. One of the key contributions of this paper is to present the methods that discriminate the NLOS measurements from the LOS measurements based on the standard deviation and K-means clustering and reconstruct the LOS measurements out of the NLOS measurements by polynomial fit in order to mitigate the NLOS error. Simulation results confirm the effectiveness and accuracy of our approach in comparison with the conventional EKF algorithm. Moreover, we do not model the distribution of the NLOS error due to its intractability.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2012 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2012
Pages2451-2456
Number of pages6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event2012 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2012 - Paris, France
Duration: 1 Apr 20124 Apr 2012

Publication series

NameIEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC
ISSN (Print)1525-3511

Conference

Conference2012 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2012
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityParis
Period1/04/124/04/12

Keywords

  • Extended Kalman filter
  • K-means clustering
  • LOS reconstruction
  • Non-Line-of-Sight
  • polynomial fit

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