Range-based geolocation in fading environments

BM Sadler, N Liu, Z Xu, R Kozick - 2008 46th Annual Allerton …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
2008 46th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control …, 2008ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider source geolocation based on range estimates from sensors with known
coordinates. In a fading propagation environment, where a line-of-sight (LOS) path may be
weak or essentially nonexistent, range estimates may have positive biases. We study this
problem by considering a weighted least squares (WLS) location estimator, based on noisy
range estimates, each of which is contaminated by additive Gaussian noise and possibly a
positive bias. We derive the mean and mean-square error (MSE) of the WLS estimator …
We consider source geolocation based on range estimates from sensors with known coordinates. In a fading propagation environment, where a line-of-sight (LOS) path may be weak or essentially nonexistent, range estimates may have positive biases. We study this problem by considering a weighted least squares (WLS) location estimator, based on noisy range estimates, each of which is contaminated by additive Gaussian noise and possibly a positive bias. We derive the mean and mean-square error (MSE) of the WLS estimator, showing that in general the estimator produces biased estimates. The error expressions are developed via first-order perturbation analysis. They provide a means to study achievable localization performance, as a function of the measurement bias and variance, as well as the sensor network geometry.
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