@article {871, title = {CDMA-based Acoustic Local Positioning System for Portable Devices with Multipath Cancellation}, journal = {Digital Signal Processing}, volume = {62}, year = {2017}, month = {03/2017}, pages = {38-51}, abstract = {
This paper presents an acoustic local positioning system (ALPS) suitable for indoor positioning
of portable devices such as smartphones or tablets, based on the transmission of high frequency
CDMA-coded signals from a fixed network of beacons. The main novelty of the proposed ALPS is
its capability to mitigate the effects of multipath propagation by performing an accurate estimation
of the Line-of-Sight Time-of-Flights (LOS-TOF) through the Matching Pursuit algorithm. Signal
detection, multipath cancellation and positioning estimation all take place within the portable device,
which provides a graphical representation of the updated position in less than a second. The
performance of the Matching Pursuit algorithm is analyzed in a real scenario and the results show
that the proposed method is capable to retrieve the multipath-free System Availability under strong
multipath conditions with SNR levels as low as 0 dB.
}, keywords = {compass, wsn}, issn = {1051-2004}, doi = {10.1016/j.dsp.2016.11.001}, author = {Fernando J. Alvarez and Teodoro Aguilera and R. L{\'o}pez-Valcarce} }