Performance of root-MUSIC on TOA estimation for an indoor spread spectrum ranging system

  • Authors:
  • Hamid Farrokhi

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Engineering, Birjand University, Birjand, Iran

  • Venue:
  • ICCOM'08 Proceedings of the 12th WSEAS international conference on Communications
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

An indoor TOA-based ranging system which uses an audible spread spectrum signal is presented. The indoor acoustic environment is modeled with a dense multipath propagation channel whose characteristics are very different from those of outdoor environments. The complexity and site-specific nature of indoor acoustic propagation, when using traditional correlation techniques, often lead to the creation of undetectable direct-line-of-sight (DLOS) situations. It is shown that by using an LFM signal and MUSIC super-resolution techniques, namely the root-MUSIC, the substantial TOA errors can be reduced significantly and the range accuracy improved by a factor of at least 3.