Design of hybrid long integration in Geo-location in presence of CCI

Abstract

Due to cell planning in a cellular communication network, it is difficult for a mobile user in a cell to get ranging measurements from other neighboring cells. Consequently, it is necessary to enhance signal sensitivity using long integration techniques so that the user position is obtained by trilateration. In order to maximize integration gain in coherent/noncoherent hybrid long integration, it is desirable to make SNR (signal to noise ratio) after coherent integration become as large as possible. Because SIR (signal to interference ratio) is not improved by the long integration, however, it is needed to mitigate CCI (Co-Channel Interference) so that the resultant hearability can be enhanced for weak signals. This paper presents a hybrid long integration scheme in presence of CCI. SNIR (signal to noise plus interference ratio) is employed to explain the loss induced by interference as well as noise. Together with interference cancellation and residual frequency estimation technique, design procedure of hybrid long integration is proposed to maximize SNIR. Simulation results show that hearability is greatly improved at most of cell coverage when the proposed method is used.