SLIDE 16 Terminal Location Measurements
Measurement Type Advantages Disadvantages Received Signal Strength (RSS)
- low cost measurements
- simple computations
- low accuracy in large cells
Angle of Arrival (AoA)
- simple computations
- specialized antennae
- low accuracy in large cells
Time of Arrival (ToA)
measurement re- quired for TDMA/CDMA network operation
- simple computations
- synchronized network re-
quired
- receiver must know time
- f transmission
- expensive measurement
Time Difference of Arrival (TDoA)
measurement re- quired for TDMA/CDMA network operation
time of transmission
quired
- expensive measurement
- complex calculations
TDMA - Time Division Multiple Access, CDMA - Code Division Multiple Access
Dynamic Model-Based Filtering for Mobile Terminal Location Estimation – p.16/51