{"title":"Signal performance analysis of the latest quartet of Galileo satellites during the first operational year","authors":"C. Andrei, J. Johansson, H. Koivula, M. Poutanen","doi":"10.1109/ICL-GNSS49876.2020.9115548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICL-GNSS49876.2020.9115548","url":null,"abstract":"On 12 February 2020, the latest four Galileo satellites had completed one full year of space operational service. The satellites were launched on 25 July 2018. The quartet increased the operational capacity of the Galileo constellation to 22 satellites. This study reports on three signal-in-space (SiS) performance indicators - status, availability, and ranging accuracy - from 11 February 2019 to 12 February 2020. In addition, the study looks also at how the on-board satellite clocks have performed. The data analysis shows 100% data validity and signal health status for three our of the four satellites, whereas NAPA (No Accuracy Prediction Available) events accounted for about 2% of the time. In addition, SiS availability was higher than 95% in the first operational year. Furthermore, the 95th percentile of the global average of the instantaneous signal in space error is found to vary between 0.17 to 0.33 m on monthly basis. Lastly, the precise satellite clock biases show high short-term performance with 0.1 ps/s (10−13 s/s) standard deviations during the first operational year. The numerical results indicate a robust performance and high reliability for the youngest Galileo satellites in the constellation. They increase the number of operational satellites in the constellation and thus contribute to the Galileo’s increased popularity in the satellite-based positioning and navigation user community.","PeriodicalId":123786,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on Localization and GNSS (ICL-GNSS)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121214828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Audio Source Positioning Based on Angle of Arrival Measurements Using Particle Filter","authors":"Mikko Lager, S. Ali-Löytty, R. Piché","doi":"10.1109/ICL-GNSS49876.2020.9115497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICL-GNSS49876.2020.9115497","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a numerical approach to the audio source positioning problem using microphones available in mobile devices. The proposed solution is a particle filter. The algorithm accuracy was tested with four different datasets, two measured in an anechoic chamber and two in a listening room. The particle filters smoothing parameter and measurement noise variance are estimated offline. The results show that this algorithm is able to position the audio source well in quiet environments.","PeriodicalId":123786,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on Localization and GNSS (ICL-GNSS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115735618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thomas Verheyde, Antoine Blais, C. Macabiau, F. Marmet
{"title":"Analyzing Android GNSS Raw Measurements Flags Detection Mechanisms for Collaborative Positioning in Urban Environment","authors":"Thomas Verheyde, Antoine Blais, C. Macabiau, F. Marmet","doi":"10.1109/ICL-GNSS49876.2020.9115564","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICL-GNSS49876.2020.9115564","url":null,"abstract":"The release of Android GNSS raw measurements, in late 2016, unlocked the access of smartphones’ technologies for advanced positioning applications. Recently, smartphones’ GNSS capabilities were optimized with the release of multi-constellation and multi-frequency GNSS chipsets. In the last few years, several papers studied the use of Android raw data measurements for developing advanced positioning techniques such as Precise Point Positioning (PPP) or Real-Time Kinematic (RTK), and quantified those measurements compare to high-end commercial receivers. However, characterizing different smartphone models and chipset manufacturers in urban environment remains an unaddressed challenge. In this paper, a thorough data analysis will be conducted based on a data collection campaign that took place in Toulouse city center. Collaborative scenarios have been put in place while navigating in deep urban canyons. Two vehicles were used for this experiment protocol, equipped with high-end GNSS receivers for reference purposes, while seven smartphones were tested. Android algorithms reliability of both the multipath and cycle slip flags were investigated and evaluated as potential performance parameters. Our study suggests that their processing may differ from one brand to another, making their use as truthful quality indicators for collaborative positioning yet open to debate.","PeriodicalId":123786,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on Localization and GNSS (ICL-GNSS)","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125878106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sub-Messages Scheduling in GNSS Packet Broadcasting By Message Splitting","authors":"F. Ardizzon, N. Laurenti, S. Tomasin","doi":"10.1109/ICL-GNSS49876.2020.9115495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICL-GNSS49876.2020.9115495","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs) have started offering additional services to improve the precision of positioning, authenticate the GNSS signal, and broadcast messages (e.g., almanacs or information needed for search and rescue purposes). In all these scenarios, possibly long messages must be broadcast over the low-rate satellite-ground communication link. By splitting the message into sub-messages, each transmitted by a different satellite, the receiver can decode them simultaneously, achieving a higher equivalent data rate. In this paper we address the problem of scheduling sub-message transmissions on a constellation of satellites for transmission over error-free and erasure channels. For the error-free case we aim at maximizing the area over the earth, where the entire message can be decoded. Both optimal (by binary linear programming) and sub-optimal low-complexity solutions are investigated. For erasure channels we consider two possible targets: either the minimization of the maximum packet error rate (PER) on the earth surface, or, in a dual fashion, the maximization of the area where all sub-messages are received with PER below a given threshold. Both problems are framed as integer linear programming problems, and again suboptimal, less computationally demanding solutions are also developed.","PeriodicalId":123786,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on Localization and GNSS (ICL-GNSS)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127983365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Positioning Based on Noise-Limited Censored Path Loss Data","authors":"A. Karttunen, M. Valkama, J. Talvitie","doi":"10.1109/ICL-GNSS49876.2020.9115572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICL-GNSS49876.2020.9115572","url":null,"abstract":"Positioning is considered one of the most important features and enabler of various novel industry verticals in future radio systems. Since path loss or received signal strength-based measurements are widely available and accessible in the majority of wireless standards, path loss-based positioning has an important role among other positioning technologies. Conventionally path loss-based positioning has two phases; i) fitting a path loss model to training data, if such training data is available, and ii) determining link distance estimates based on the path loss model and calculating the position estimate. However, in both phases, the maximum measurable path loss is limited by measurement noise. Such immeasurable samples are called censored path loss data and such noisy data is commonly neglected in both the model fitting and in the positioning phase. In the case of censored path loss, the loss is known to be above a known threshold level and that information can be used in model fitting as well as in the positioning phase. In this paper, we examine and propose how to use censored path loss data in path loss model-based positioning and demonstrate with simulations the potential of the proposed approach for considerable improvements (over 30%) in positioning accuracy.","PeriodicalId":123786,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on Localization and GNSS (ICL-GNSS)","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132557931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Carlos Baquero Barneto, T. Riihonen, Matias Turunen, Mike Koivisto, J. Talvitie, M. Valkama
{"title":"Radio-based Sensing and Indoor Mapping with Millimeter-Wave 5G NR Signals","authors":"Carlos Baquero Barneto, T. Riihonen, Matias Turunen, Mike Koivisto, J. Talvitie, M. Valkama","doi":"10.1109/ICL-GNSS49876.2020.9115568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICL-GNSS49876.2020.9115568","url":null,"abstract":"The emerging 5G New Radio (NR) networks are expected to enable huge improvements, e.g., in terms of capacity, number of connected devices, peak data rates and latency, compared to existing networks. At the same time, a new trend referred to as the RF convergence is aiming to jointly integrate communications and sensing functionalities into the same systems and hardware platforms. In this paper, we investigate the sensing prospects of 5G NR systems, with particular emphasis on the user equipment side and their potential for joint communications and environment mapping. To this end, a radio-based sensing approach utilizing the 5G NR uplink transmit signal and an efficient receiver processing and mapping scheme are proposed. An indoor scenario is then studied and evaluated through real-world RF measurements at 28 GHz mm-wave band, showing that impressive mapping performance can be achieved by the proposed system. The measurement data is available at a permanent open repository.","PeriodicalId":123786,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on Localization and GNSS (ICL-GNSS)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128830685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Roman Klus, Lucie Klus, D. Solomitckii, M. Valkama, J. Talvitie
{"title":"Deep Learning Based Localization and HO Optimization in 5G NR Networks","authors":"Roman Klus, Lucie Klus, D. Solomitckii, M. Valkama, J. Talvitie","doi":"10.1109/ICL-GNSS49876.2020.9115530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICL-GNSS49876.2020.9115530","url":null,"abstract":"In the emerging 5G radio networks, beamforming-capable nodes are able to densely cover narrow areas with a high-quality signal. Such systems require high-level handover management system to proactively react to upcoming changes in signal quality, while restricting common issues such as ping-ponging or fast-shadowing of the signal. The utilization of deep learning in such a system allows for dynamic optimization of the system policies, based directly on the past behavior of the users and their channel responses. Our approach on handover optimization is purely non-deterministic, proving the idea that a self-learning network is able to efficiently manage user mobility in dense network scenario. The proposed network consists of feature extractors and dense layers. The model is trained in two stages, first serves as an initial weight setting in supervised fashion based on 3GPP model. The second stage is an optimization problem to reduce the number of unnecessary handovers while sustaining a high-quality connection. The model is also trained to predict the user location information as the second output. The presented results show that the number of handovers can be significantly reduced without decreasing the throughput of the system. The predicted location of the user has meter-level accuracy.","PeriodicalId":123786,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on Localization and GNSS (ICL-GNSS)","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128415804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Torres-Sospedra, Darwin Quezada-Gaibor, G. M. Mendoza-Silva, J. Nurmi, Y. Koucheryavy, J. Huerta
{"title":"New Cluster Selection and Fine-grained Search for k-Means Clustering and Wi-Fi Fingerprinting","authors":"J. Torres-Sospedra, Darwin Quezada-Gaibor, G. M. Mendoza-Silva, J. Nurmi, Y. Koucheryavy, J. Huerta","doi":"10.1109/ICL-GNSS49876.2020.9115419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICL-GNSS49876.2020.9115419","url":null,"abstract":"Wi-Fi fingerprinting is a popular technique for Indoor Positioning Systems (IPSs) thanks to its low complexity and the ubiquity of WLAN infrastructures. However, this technique may present scalability issues when the reference dataset (radio map) is very large. To reduce the computational costs, k-Means Clustering has been successfully applied in the past. However, it is a general-purpose algorithm for unsupervised classification. This paper introduces three variants that apply heuristics based on radio propagation knowledge in the coarse and fine-grained searches. Due to the heterogeneity either in the IPS side (including radio map generation) and in the network infrastructure, we used an evaluation framework composed of 16 datasets. In terms of general positioning accuracy and computational costs, the best proposed k-means variant provided better general positioning accuracy and a significantly better computational cost –around 40% lower– than the original k-means.","PeriodicalId":123786,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on Localization and GNSS (ICL-GNSS)","volume":"10 14","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113954611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Opportunities and challenges of Galileo E5 wideband real signals processing","authors":"N. Linty, M. Z. H. Bhuiyan, M. Kirkko-Jaakkola","doi":"10.1109/ICL-GNSS49876.2020.9115573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICL-GNSS49876.2020.9115573","url":null,"abstract":"Galileo offers to civilian users an increasing number of services, aiming at enhancing accuracy, availability, robustness and integrity of the navigation solution. Despite being available since the first transmission, the E5 AltBOC wideband signal has not gained popularity yet, mainly due to the challenges in handling such a large band and in processing a complex modulation. Nevertheless, it offers unprecedented standalone positioning accuracy. With the progress of electronics, we can foresee that hardware capable of capturing and processing such signals will be available soon also at mid-range prices, and in the future even in the mass-market segment. This paper describes the software implementation of an acquisition, tracking, data demodulation and navigation solution chain for Galileo E5 AltBOC signals, outlining opportunities and challenges. Considerations are supported by real Galileo data results, showing sub-meter stand-alone positioning accuracy.","PeriodicalId":123786,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on Localization and GNSS (ICL-GNSS)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130802026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maximilian Stahlke, Sebastian Kram, Christopher Mutschler, T. Mahr
{"title":"NLOS Detection using UWB Channel Impulse Responses and Convolutional Neural Networks","authors":"Maximilian Stahlke, Sebastian Kram, Christopher Mutschler, T. Mahr","doi":"10.1109/ICL-GNSS49876.2020.9115498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICL-GNSS49876.2020.9115498","url":null,"abstract":"Indoor environments often pose challenges to RFbased positioning systems. Typically, objects within the environment influence the signal propagation due to absorption, reflection, and scattering effects. This results in errors in the estimation of the time or arrival (TOA) and hence leads to errors in the position estimation. Recently, different approaches based on classical, feature-based machine learning (ML) have successfully detected such obstructions based on CIRs of ultra wideband (UWB) positioning systems.This paper applies different convolutional neural network architectures (ResNet, Encoder, FCN) to detect non line-of-sight (NLOS) channel conditions directly from the CIR raw data. A realistic measurement campaign is used to train and evaluate the algorithms. The proposed methods highly outperform the featurebased ML baselines while still using low network complexities. We also show that the models generalize well to unknown receivers and environments and that positioning filters benefit significantly from the identification of NLOS measurements.","PeriodicalId":123786,"journal":{"name":"2020 International Conference on Localization and GNSS (ICL-GNSS)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134290666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}