Base Station Selection for Hybrid TDOA/RTT/DOA Positioning in Mixed LOS/NLOS Environment

The fifth generation (5G) cellular communication system is designed to support Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA), Round-Trip Time (RTT), and Direction of Arrival (DOA) measurements for indoor positioning. To mitigate the positioning error caused by non-line-of-sight (NLOS), existing base station selection methods identify channel conditions and only use line-of-sight (LOS) signals for positioning. However, different selected base station combination would lead to a different geometric dilution of precision (GDOP), base station selection based only on channel condition is not fully applicable for the hybrid positioning. This paper derives the GDOP for the hybrid TDOA, RTT, and DOA positioning, and proposes a GDOP-assisted base station selection method, which is based on both channel conditions and GDOP value changes. The simulation shows that using the proposed base station selection method could lead to higher positioning accuracy than base station selection based only on channel condition. In the simulation, in the side region of the scenario, where the change of selected base station combination causes a notable increment in GDOP value, the positioning accuracy improvement caused by the proposed method is greater than that in the center region.

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