NaGlobal vigation Satellite System(GNSS)positioning technology is widely used for its high precision,global,and all-weather service.However,in complex environments such as urban canyons,GNSS performance is often degra...NaGlobal vigation Satellite System(GNSS)positioning technology is widely used for its high precision,global,and all-weather service.However,in complex environments such as urban canyons,GNSS performance is often degraded due to signal occlusion and even fails to achieve positioning due to the insufficient visible satellites.Because of the characteristics of large band-width,low latency,and high Base Station(BS)density,the fifth-Generation mobile communication(5G)technology has gradually become a trend for positioning in cities while offering traditional communication service.To supply the communication demands of the User Equipment(UE),only one BS is usually considered to establish a connection with the UE during the BS construction.However,the positioning accuracy with a single BS in urban canyons will be significantly reduced.To further improve the positioning accuracy in such extreme scenarios,this paper proposes a simplified 5G/GNSS fusion positioning system architecture using observations from only a 5G BS and a GNSS satellite.In this system,the GNSS receiver is mounted on the 5G BS,and the measurements provided by the receiver are used to form the differential code and complete the position estimation.The positioning mathematical models of the system based on the original code and differential code are derived.Then,the impacts of the measurements noise and the time synchronization error on the positioning accuracy are analyzed theoretically.Finally,the positioning performance is investigated by a set of simulation experiments.Numerical results show that under the existing 5G measurement noise and 2 m’s code measurement noise,the improvement of the differential code based fusion positioning compared with the 5G-only positioning is more than 32%,which is also about 6%higher than the original code based fusion positioning.Besides,this improvement is not affected by the time synchronization error between the BS and the GNSS satellite.展开更多
Time delay-based the 5th Generation Mobile Communication Technology(5G)positioning is a main method to perform high-precision positioning in Global Navigation Satellite System(GNSS)denied areas.However,in practical ap...Time delay-based the 5th Generation Mobile Communication Technology(5G)positioning is a main method to perform high-precision positioning in Global Navigation Satellite System(GNSS)denied areas.However,in practical applications,the occlusion of signals in a complex environment results in few observable base stations,which affects the reliability and accuracy of positioning.The aim of this study is to improve the performance of the 5G positioning in complex environments with an insufficient number of observable base stations.First,the Angle of Departure(AOD)capability of multi-antennas is integrated into Multi-Round-Trip-Time(Multi-RTT)positioning,establishing a novel 5G RTT/AOD positioning model.Then,the influencing factors of positioning performance,including the Dilution of Precision(DOP)and the accuracy of the AOD measurements,is analyzed.The relationship between DOP and RTT/AOD positioning accuracy is deduced.Afterwards,simulation experiments are performed on 5G positioning with the Multi-RTT and RTT/AOD methods in two scenarios with good and complex environments.The theoretical analysis and experimental results show that 5G positioning with the RTT/AOD method increases the horizontal and vertical accuracies by approximately 25 and 65%,respectively,compared with the Multi-RTT method.The positioning reliability is also greatly improved.The proposed model can well solve the inefficiency of 5G positioning with the RTT method in scenarios where the number of base stations is less than three.展开更多
基金supported by the National tural Science Foundation of ChinaNa[grant number 41974038]NaThe tional Key Research and Development Program of China[grant number 2018YFC0809804].
文摘NaGlobal vigation Satellite System(GNSS)positioning technology is widely used for its high precision,global,and all-weather service.However,in complex environments such as urban canyons,GNSS performance is often degraded due to signal occlusion and even fails to achieve positioning due to the insufficient visible satellites.Because of the characteristics of large band-width,low latency,and high Base Station(BS)density,the fifth-Generation mobile communication(5G)technology has gradually become a trend for positioning in cities while offering traditional communication service.To supply the communication demands of the User Equipment(UE),only one BS is usually considered to establish a connection with the UE during the BS construction.However,the positioning accuracy with a single BS in urban canyons will be significantly reduced.To further improve the positioning accuracy in such extreme scenarios,this paper proposes a simplified 5G/GNSS fusion positioning system architecture using observations from only a 5G BS and a GNSS satellite.In this system,the GNSS receiver is mounted on the 5G BS,and the measurements provided by the receiver are used to form the differential code and complete the position estimation.The positioning mathematical models of the system based on the original code and differential code are derived.Then,the impacts of the measurements noise and the time synchronization error on the positioning accuracy are analyzed theoretically.Finally,the positioning performance is investigated by a set of simulation experiments.Numerical results show that under the existing 5G measurement noise and 2 m’s code measurement noise,the improvement of the differential code based fusion positioning compared with the 5G-only positioning is more than 32%,which is also about 6%higher than the original code based fusion positioning.Besides,this improvement is not affected by the time synchronization error between the BS and the GNSS satellite.
基金Grant No.2018YFC0809804National Science Foundation of China under Grant No.41974038major consulting research project of the Chinese Academy of Engineering(HB2020B13).
文摘Time delay-based the 5th Generation Mobile Communication Technology(5G)positioning is a main method to perform high-precision positioning in Global Navigation Satellite System(GNSS)denied areas.However,in practical applications,the occlusion of signals in a complex environment results in few observable base stations,which affects the reliability and accuracy of positioning.The aim of this study is to improve the performance of the 5G positioning in complex environments with an insufficient number of observable base stations.First,the Angle of Departure(AOD)capability of multi-antennas is integrated into Multi-Round-Trip-Time(Multi-RTT)positioning,establishing a novel 5G RTT/AOD positioning model.Then,the influencing factors of positioning performance,including the Dilution of Precision(DOP)and the accuracy of the AOD measurements,is analyzed.The relationship between DOP and RTT/AOD positioning accuracy is deduced.Afterwards,simulation experiments are performed on 5G positioning with the Multi-RTT and RTT/AOD methods in two scenarios with good and complex environments.The theoretical analysis and experimental results show that 5G positioning with the RTT/AOD method increases the horizontal and vertical accuracies by approximately 25 and 65%,respectively,compared with the Multi-RTT method.The positioning reliability is also greatly improved.The proposed model can well solve the inefficiency of 5G positioning with the RTT method in scenarios where the number of base stations is less than three.
