DVB-T Positioning with a One Shot Receiver

In this paper a one shot receiver for DVB-T positioning is presented. DVB-T SFN signals can be used as Signals-of-Opportunity in urban environment to assist GNSS in case the GNSS-only positioning shows degraded performance. The normal mechanism of DVB-T positioning involves a tracking stage to refine the coarse delay estimation obtained by the acquisition stage. However due to the high SNR of DVB-T signals, the delay estimation can be refined by some simple interpolation methods with lower complexity and power consumption. Two different interpolation methods, linear interpolation and sinc interpolation, are analysed in the paper. Simulation results show that the one shot receiver proposed in this paper behaves as a tracking-based receiver, but exhibits a lower complexit

WiFi emission-based vs passive radar localization of human targets

In this paper two approaches are considered for human targets localization based on the WiFi signals: the device emission-based localization and the passive radar. Localization performance and characteristics of the two localization techniques are analyzed and compared, aiming at their joint exploitation inside sensor fusion systems. The former combines the Angle of Arrival (AoA) and the Time Difference of Arrival (TDoA) measures of the device transmissions to achieve the target position, while the latter exploits the AoA and the bistatic range measures of the target echoes. The results obtained on experimental data show that the WiFi emission-based strategy is always effective for the positioning of human targets holding a WiFi device, but it has a poor localization accuracy and the number of measured positions largely depends on the device activity. In contrast, the passive radar is only effective for moving targets and has limited spatial resolution but it provides better accuracy performance, thanks to the possibility to integrate a higher number of received signals. These results also demonstrate a significant complementarity of these techniques, through a suitable experimental test, which opens the way to the development of appropriate sensor fusion techniques