Power boosting factor determination in impulse postfix-OFDM-based positioning system

Based on recently introduced novel impulse postfix-OFDM scheme, we proposed a joint time-of-arrival/angle-of-arrival positioning scheme, in which both channel estimation and positioning information can be realized by analyzing the channel impulse response estimated on an access point equipped with a uniform linear antenna array. However, the power boosting factor PBF determination of impulse postfix IP should be taken as an important issue, because a small PBF will result in imprecise channel estimation and deteriorate the communication quality, as well as positioning accuracy; in contrast, the huge power assignment on IP will lead to insufficient power allocated on date portion, when transmitted power is restricted, which also increases the system BER. In this paper, to obtain the optimal performance of both BER and positioning accuracy, we mathematically analyze the BER and positioning performance with increasing PBFs in the term of signal-to-noise ratio and confirm our assumption in the cases of quadrature phase-shift keying and 16-quadrature amplitude modulation, with computer simulation. The result applies that, as the PBF is increasing, the system BER is enhanced until PBF reaches 15 and starts deteriorating thereafter. According to the result, the decision criteria for determining PBF of IP should depend on practical preference of BER or positioning. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.