Single-Anchor Localization and Orientation Performance Limits Using Massive Arrays: MIMO vs. Beamforming

In the next generation of cellular networks, it is desirable to use single access points both for communication and localization. This could be made possible thanks to the combination of femtocells, mm-wave technology and massive antenna arrays, and would overcome the problem of having an over-sized...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on wireless communications 2018-08, Vol.17 (8), p.5241-5255
Main Authors: Guerra, Anna, Guidi, Francesco, Dardari, Davide
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anchors
Antenna arrays
Antennas
Array signal processing
asymptotic Fisher information analysis
Beamforming
Cellular communication
Cramer-Rao bounds
direct localization
Directivity
Localization
massive array
Millimeter waves
MIMO communication
Position and orientation error bound
Receiving antennas
Signal to noise ratio
Tightness
Transmitting antennas
Waveforms
Wireless communication
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Summary:In the next generation of cellular networks, it is desirable to use single access points both for communication and localization. This could be made possible thanks to the combination of femtocells, mm-wave technology and massive antenna arrays, and would overcome the problem of having an over-sized infrastructure for positioning which is, nowadays, the bottleneck for the widespread diffusion of indoor localization systems. In this context, our paper aims at investigating the localization and orientation performance limits employing massive arrays both at the access point and mobile side. To this end, we first asymptotically demonstrate the tightness of the Cramér-Rao bound (CRB) in the massive array regime and that the effect of multipath can be made negligible even for practical values of SNR levels. Successively, we propose a comparison between two different transmitter configurations, namely multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO), where orthogonal waveforms are sent, and beamforming, which takes advantage of highly correlated waveforms and directive array patterns. We also consider random weighting as a trade-off between the diversity gain of MIMO and the high directivity guaranteed by the beamforming. CRB results show the interplay between diversity and beamforming gain as well as the benefits achievable by varying the number of antennas in terms of localization accuracy and multipath mitigation.
ISSN:1536-1276
1558-2248
DOI:10.1109/TWC.2018.2840136