A low-cost protocol and application for UWB localization

Christian Kocks*, Ernest Scheiber, Dong Xu, Alexander Viessmann, Shangbo Wang, Guido H. Bruck, Peter Jung

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Abstract

Started in April 2008, the EUWB (Coexisting Short Range Radio by Advanced Ultra-Wideband Radio Technology, FP7-ICT-215669, www.euwb.eu) project has been an industry-led initiative of twenty-one major industrial and excellent academic organizations from Europe and Israel who have been targeting innovative improvement, adaptation, integration and application of short-range Ultra-Wideband Radio Technology (UWB-RT). EUWB has effectively leveraged and significantly enhanced the scientific knowledge base in the advanced UWB-RT and has provided sophisticated new applications enabled by UWB and highly demanded in several European key industrial sectors such as home entertainment consumer electronics, automotive, public transportation, and heterogeneous cellular networks. It is anticipated that the efficient exploitation of cross-layer functionalities will fertilize the successful application of UWB technology. Within EUWB, major fields of this emerging challenge have been identified, such as the cognitive radio related Detect-And-Avoid (DAA) technology and the localization and tracking (LT) technology. An important aspect is to design an LT protocol. In this manuscript the authors will first illustrate the technical approach of EUWB, giving a brief overview of the project. Then, the authors will propose a novel LT protocol and application. This application is tailored to operate also with UWB devices that do not fully comply with the previously proposed LT schemes which need specific physical and medium access control layer functionalities.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2009 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband, ICUWB 2009
Pages135-139
Number of pages5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes
Event2009 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband, ICUWB 2009 - Vancouver, BC, Canada
Duration: 9 Sept 200911 Sept 2009

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2009 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband, ICUWB 2009

Conference

Conference2009 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband, ICUWB 2009
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVancouver, BC
Period9/09/0911/09/09

Keywords

  • Cognitive radio (CR)
  • Cross-layer design
  • Localization and tracking (LT)
  • Ultra-wideband radio technology (UWB-RT)

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