Tiwari, SmitaWang, DonglinFattouche, MichelGhannouchi, Fadhel2018-09-272018-09-272012-03-01Smita Tiwari, Donglin Wang, Michel Fattouche, and Fadhel Ghannouchi, “A Hybrid RSS/TOA Method for 3D Positioning in an Indoor Environment,” ISRN Signal Processing, vol. 2012, Article ID 503707, 9 pages, 2012. doi:10.5402/2012/503707http://hdl.handle.net/1880/108386https://doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/44068This paper investigates 3D positioning in an indoor line of sight (LOS) and nonline of sight (NLOS) combined environment. It is a known fact that time-of-arrival-(TOA-) based positioning outperforms other techniques in LOS environments; however, multipath in an indoor environment, especially NLOS multipath, significantly decreases the accuracy of TOA positioning. On the other hand, received-signal-strength-(RSS-) based positioning is not affected so much by NLOS multipath as long as the propagation attenuation can be correctly estimated and the multipath effects have been compensated for. Based on this fact, a hybrid weighted least square (HWLS) RSS/TOA method is proposed for target positioning in an indoor LOS/NLOS environment. The identification of LOS/NLOS path is implemented by using Nakagami distribution. An experiment is conducted in the iRadio lab, in the ICT building at the University of Calgary, in order to (i) demonstrate the availability of Nakagami distribution for the identification of LOS and NLOS path, (ii) estimate the pass loss exponent for RSS technique, and (iii) verify our proposed scheme.Journal Article2018-09-27enCopyright © 2012 Smita Tiwari et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.https://doi.org/10.5402/2012/503707