WLAN indoor positioning based on TOA with two reference points

Abstract

This paper presents a new approach to providing accurate pedestrian indoor positioning using a Time of Arrival (TOA) based technique, when only two access points in an IEEE 802.11 network are in range of a mobile terminal to be located. This allows to enhance the availability and reliability of the positioning system, because existing trilateration-and tracking-based systems require at least three reference points to provide 2D positions. This contribution demonstrates the feasibility of the technique proposed and presents encouraging performance figures obtained through simulations with real observable data.