Handbook of Position Location (eBook)

Seyed A. (Reza) Zekavat, PhD, is Associate Professor and thefounder of the wireless positioning lab at Michigan Tech. Prof.Zekavat is the founder of VIEWComm. Co., a position locationcompany. He is active on the technical program committees forseveral IEEE international conferences, serving as a committeechair or member, and he is currently with the IET Wireless SensorSystems editorial board. His research has been supported by federalagencies and industries including the NSF, ARL, and NationalInstruments. R. Michael Buehrer, PhD, is an Associate Professor in theBradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering atVirginia Tech. His research at Virginia Tech has been sponsored byseveral federal agencies including DARPA, ONR, and NSF, as well asby many companies, including Qualcomm, Motorola, and severalothers.

Part I. Fundamentals of Position Location.

Chapter 1. Wireless Positioning Systems: Operation, Application, and Comparison.

Chapter 2. Source Localization: Algorithms and Analysis.

Chapter 3. Security Issues for Position Location.

Chapter 4. Channel Modeling and Its Impact on Localization.

Chapter 5. Computational Methods for Localization.

Part II. TOA and DOA Based Positioning.

Chapter 6. Fundamentals of Time-of-Arrival-Based Position Location.

Chapter 7. A Review of TOA Estimation Techniques and Comparison.

Chapter 8. Wireless Localization Using Ultra-Wideband Signals.

Chapter 9. An Introduction to Direction-of-Arrival Estimation Techniques via Antenna Arrays.

Chapter 10. Smart Antennas for Direction of Arrival Indoor Positioning Applications.

Part III. Received Signal Strength Based Positioning.

Chapter 11. Fundamentals of Received Signal Strength Based Position Location.

Chapter 12. On the Performance of Wireless Indoor Localization Using Received Signal Strength.

Chapter 13. Impact of Anchor Placement and Anchor Selection on Localization Accuracy.

Chapter 14. Kernal Methods for RSS-based Indoor Localization.

Chapter 15. RF Fingerprinting Location Techniques.

Part IV. LOS/NLOS Localization - Identification - Mitigation.

Chapter 16. An Introduction to NLOS identification and localization.

Chapter 17. NLOS Mitigation Methods for Geolocation.

Chapter 18. Mobile Position Estimation Using Received Signal Strength and Time of Arrival in Mixed LOS/NLOS Environments.

Part V. Mobility and Tracking using the Kalman Filter.

Chapter 19. Implementation of Kalman Filter for Localization.

Chapter 20. Remote Sensing Technologies for Indoor Applications.

Chapter 21. Mobile Tracking in Mixed Line-of-sight/Non-line-of-sight Condition: Algorithms and Theoretical Lower Bound.

Chapter 22. The Kalman Filter and its Applications in GNSS and INS.

Part VI. Network Localization.

Chapter 23. Collaborative Position Location.

Chapter 24. Polynomial Based Methods for Localization in Multiagent Systems.

Chapter 25. Belief Propagation Techniques for Cooperative Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks.

Chapter 26. Error Characterization of Ad Hoc Positioning Systems.

Chapter 27. Self-Localization of Formations of Autonomous Agents Using Bearing Measurements.

Part VII. Applications.

Chapter 28. Overview of GNSS Systems.

Chapter 29. Digital signal processing in GNSS receivers.

Chapter 30. Autonomous Mobile Robot Navigation Systems using RFID and their Applications.

Chapter 31. Cellular-based Positioning for Next Generation.

Chapter 32. Positioning in LTE.

Chapter 33. Automated Wildlife Radio Tracking.

Chapter 34. An Introduction to the Fundamentals and Implementation of Wireless Local Positioning Systems.