On the Trade-off Between Accuracy and Delay in UWB navigation
Journal article, 2013

We investigate the relation between medium access control (MAC) delay and ultra-wide bandwidth (UWB) tracking accuracy. We quantify this relation by deriving fundamental lower bounds on tracking accuracy and MAC delay for arbitrary finite networks. Our main finding is that the traditional ways to increase accuracy (e.g., increasing the number of anchors or the transmission power) may lead to large MAC delays. We evaluate two methods to mitigate these delays.

MAC delay

positioning

Ultra-wideband

navigation

S-TDMA

Author

Gabriel Garcia

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Srikar Muppirisetty

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Henk Wymeersch

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

IEEE Communications Letters

1089-7798 (ISSN) 15582558 (eISSN)

Vol. 17 1 39-42 6374725

Robust and Fault-Tolerant Cooperative Positioning

Swedish Research Council (VR) (2010-5889), 2011-01-01 -- 2013-12-31.

Cooperative Situational Awareness for Wireless Networks (COOPNET)

European Commission (EC) (EC/FP7/258418), 2011-05-01 -- 2016-04-30.

Areas of Advance

Information and Communication Technology

Subject Categories

Telecommunications

Signal Processing

DOI

10.1109/LCOMM.2012.120312.121542

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10/7/2017