Indoor Localization with LTE Carrier Phase Measurements and Synthetic Aperture Antenna Array

Ali A. Abdallah, Kimia Shamaei, and Zaher M. Kassas

Peer Reviewed

Abstract: An approach for indoor localization using cellular long-term evolution (LTE) carrier phase measurements, which mitigates multipath is developed. The proposed approach exploits the motion of the receiver to synthesize an antenna array from time-separated elements. The synthesized data received by the synthetic antenna array is processed to suppress multipath via determining the direction-of-arrival (DOA) of incoming LTE signals. The proposed LTESAN framework is validated experimentally and compared with a standalone LTE receiver, in which the pedestrianmounted receiver navigated 126.8 m indoors in 100 seconds, while receiving LTE signals from 6 eNodeBs. The proposed approach exhibited a position root mean-squared error (RMSE) of 3.93 m compared to 7.19 m using the standalone LTE receiver.
Published in: Proceedings of the 32nd International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2019)
September 16 - 20, 2019
Hyatt Regency Miami
Miami, Florida
Pages: 2670 - 2679
Cite this article: Abdallah, Ali A., Shamaei, Kimia, Kassas, Zaher M., "Indoor Localization with LTE Carrier Phase Measurements and Synthetic Aperture Antenna Array," Proceedings of the 32nd International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2019), Miami, Florida, September 2019, pp. 2670-2679.
https://doi.org/10.33012/2019.17030
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