TY - GEN
T1 - A two-step time of arrival estimation algorithm for impulse radio ultra wideband systems
AU - Gezici, Sinan
AU - Sahinoglu, Zafer
AU - Molisch, Andreas F.
AU - Kobayashi, Hisashi
AU - Poor, H. Vincent
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - High time resolution of ultra wideband (UWB) signals facilitates very precise positioning capabilities based on time-of-arrival (TOA) measurements. Although the theoretical lower bound for TOA estimation can be achieved by the maximum likelihood principle, it is impractical due to the need for extremely high-rate sampling and the presence of large number of multipath components. On the other hand, the conventional correlation-based algorithm, which serially searches possible signal delays, takes a very long time to estimate the TOA of a received UWB signal. Moreover, the first signal path does not always have the strongest correlation output. Therefore, first path detection algorithms need to be considered. In this paper, a data-aided two-step TOA estimation algorithm is proposed. In order to speed up the estimation process, the first step estimates the rough TOA of the received signal based on received signal energy. Then, in the second step, the arrival time of the first signal path is estimated by considering a hypothesis testing approach. The proposed scheme uses low-rate correlation outputs, and is able to perform accurate TOA estimation in reasonable time intervals. The simulation results are presented to analyze the performance of the estimator.
AB - High time resolution of ultra wideband (UWB) signals facilitates very precise positioning capabilities based on time-of-arrival (TOA) measurements. Although the theoretical lower bound for TOA estimation can be achieved by the maximum likelihood principle, it is impractical due to the need for extremely high-rate sampling and the presence of large number of multipath components. On the other hand, the conventional correlation-based algorithm, which serially searches possible signal delays, takes a very long time to estimate the TOA of a received UWB signal. Moreover, the first signal path does not always have the strongest correlation output. Therefore, first path detection algorithms need to be considered. In this paper, a data-aided two-step TOA estimation algorithm is proposed. In order to speed up the estimation process, the first step estimates the rough TOA of the received signal based on received signal energy. Then, in the second step, the arrival time of the first signal path is estimated by considering a hypothesis testing approach. The proposed scheme uses low-rate correlation outputs, and is able to perform accurate TOA estimation in reasonable time intervals. The simulation results are presented to analyze the performance of the estimator.
KW - Impulse radio (IR)
KW - Method of moments (MM)
KW - Statistical change detection
KW - Time of arrival (TOA) estimation
KW - Ultra-wideband (UWB)
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:67249107934
SN - 1604238216
SN - 9781604238211
T3 - 13th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2005
BT - 13th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2005
T2 - 13th European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2005
Y2 - 4 September 2005 through 8 September 2005
ER -