Position and Orientation Estimation through Millimeter Wave MIMO in 5G Systems
Journal article, 2018

Millimeter wave signals and large antenna arrays are considered enabling technologies for future 5G networks. While their benefits for achieving high-data rate communications are well-known, their potential advantages for accurate positioning are largely undiscovered. We derive the Cramér-Rao bound (CRB) on position and rotation angle estimation uncertainty from millimeter wave signals from a single transmitter, in the presence of scatterers. We also present a novel two-stage algorithm for position and rotation angle estimation that attains the CRB for average to high signal-to-noise ratio. The algorithm is based on multiple measurement vectors matching pursuit for coarse estimation, followed by a refinement stage based on the space-alternating generalized expectation maximization algorithm. We find that accurate position and rotation angle estimation is possible using signals from a single transmitter, in either line-of-sight, non-line-of-sight, or obstructed-line-of-sight conditions.

Author

Arash Shahmansoori

Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB)

Gabriel Garcia

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Giuseppe Destino

University of Oulu

Gonzalo Seco-Granados

Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB)

Henk Wymeersch

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

15361276 (ISSN) 15582248 (eISSN)

Vol. 17 3 1822-1835

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VINNOVA (2015-04849), 2016-01-01 -- 2018-12-31.

Areas of Advance

Information and Communication Technology

Transport

Subject Categories

Telecommunications

Communication Systems

Signal Processing

DOI

10.1109/TWC.2017.2785788

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