Direct position determination of multiple radio signals
EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
Cramér–Rao bound analysis of positioning approaches in GNSS receivers
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
Classical and Modern Direction-of-Arrival Estimation
Classical and Modern Direction-of-Arrival Estimation
Localization of Narrowband Radio Emitters Based on Doppler Frequency Shifts
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
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Passive localization commonly consists of a two steps strategy. In the first step, intermediate parameters, often called measurements (such as angles of arrival (AOA), times of arrival (TOA), etc.) are measured on several base stations equipped with sensor arrays. In a second step, the transmitted intermediate parameters are then used to estimate the position at a central processing unit. Such approach is suboptimal. To overcome this limitation, one step algorithms were recently proposed. They exploit simultaneously all received signals of all base stations seen as a global array in order to provide the source positions directly. In this paper, we propose an original one step algorithm called global MUSIC approach (GMA). The GMA offers better performance in narrowband context. Moreover it does not require the use of filter banks in the wideband signal context, contrary to the recently proposed direct position determination (DPD). GMA appears to outperform the DPD in wideband context. We also investigate in this paper by means of a Cramer-Rao bound analysis the potential gain achievable by a one step approach compared to a conventional two steps approach. Finally, numerical results illustrate the improvement of the proposed method compared to existing techniques in terms of location error and robustness to the time-bandwidth product.