Localization of vehicular ad-hoc networks with RSS based distance estimation

Nasir Saeed, Waqas Ahmad, Dost Muhammad Saqib Bhatti

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Abstract

Location information of a vehicle provides numerous applications such as, emergency calling, navigation, vehicle tracking and other location based services. Vehicles localization in vehicular adhoc networks (VANETs) in urban scenarios is a key issue for public safety applications. Motivated by localization of vehicles in urban areas for public safety, where the de facto standard solution global positioning system (GPS) does not provide the required localization accuracy, a local closed form solution is proposed for VANETs localization exploiting the communication with road side units (RSUs). In proposed technique the vehicle receives signals from the RSUs within its range, and computes the average receive signal strength (RSS) from each RSU. The average RSS measurements are fed to the proposed closed form localization algorithm which computes the the vehicle position. The proposed algorithm only take the RSS measurements from the closer RSUs with higher signal to noise ratio, which results in better location estimation. The performance of the proposed closed form solution is analyzed by deriving its Cramer Rao lower bound. Numerous simulations are performed to show that the proposed RSS based closed form solution outperforms the least square and weighted least square techniques.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2018 International Conference on Computing, Mathematics and Engineering Technologies
Subtitle of host publicationInvent, Innovate and Integrate for Socioeconomic Development, iCoMET 2018 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1-6
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781538613702
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 24 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event2018 International Conference on Computing, Mathematics and Engineering Technologies, iCoMET 2018 - Sukkur, Pakistan
Duration: Mar 3 2018Mar 4 2018

Publication series

Name2018 International Conference on Computing, Mathematics and Engineering Technologies: Invent, Innovate and Integrate for Socioeconomic Development, iCoMET 2018 - Proceedings
Volume2018-January

Conference

Conference2018 International Conference on Computing, Mathematics and Engineering Technologies, iCoMET 2018
Country/TerritoryPakistan
CitySukkur
Period3/3/183/4/18

Keywords

  • Cramer Rao lower bound
  • Location Information
  • Received signal strength
  • Vehicular adhoc networks

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computational Mathematics
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Information Systems
  • Signal Processing
  • Software
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)
  • Control and Optimization

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