Positioning for the Internet of Things: A 3GPP Perspective
Journal article, 2017

Many use cases in the Internet of Things (IoT) will require or benefit from location information, making positioning a vital dimension of the IoT. The 3GPP has dedicated a significant effort during its Release 14 to enhance positioning support for its IoT technologies to further improve the 3GPPbased IoT eco-system. In this article, we identify the design challenges of positioning support in LTE-M and NB-IoT, and overview the 3GPP's work in enhancing the positioning support for LTE-M and NB-IoT. We focus on OTDOA, which is a downlink based positioning method. We provide an overview of the OTDOA architecture and protocols, summarize the designs of OTDOA positioning reference signals, and present simulation results to illustrate the positioning performance.

Author

Xingqin Lin

Johan Bergman

Fredrik Gunnarsson

Olof Liberg

Sara Modarres Razavi

Hazhir Shokri Razaghi

Henrik Rydn

Sui Yutao

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

IEEE Communications Magazine

0163-6804 (ISSN) 15581896 (eISSN)

Vol. 55 12 179-185 8030544

Subject Categories

Communication Systems

DOI

10.1109/MCOM.2017.1700269

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