Handbook of Position Location: Theory, Practice and Advances (IEEE Series on Digital & Mobile Communication)

The most comprehensive reference on wireless localizationtechnology, featuring theory, current practice, and applicationexamples

This authoritative handbook reviews both classic and emergingposition location techniques, presenting unique, in-depth coveragefrom fundamentals of coordinates to advanced application examples.Featuring contributions from dozens of researchers from around theworld, it provides the breadth of knowledge needed for readers whoneed to get up to speed in the fundamentals of wirelesslocalization or who are involved in its emerging applications insuch key areas as homeland security, law enforcement, emergencyresponse, defense command and control, and multi-robotcoordination.

This invaluable handbook is comprised of seven parts:

• Part I reviews the basic techniques and research topics inposition localization

• Part II details TOA and DOA localization methods, introducingimportant measures that compare different estimation techniques

• Part III studies the fundamentals of received signalstrength–based positioning methods and their potential forindoor localization

• Part IV examines non-line-of-sight identification, mitigation,and localization methods, highlighting many novel techniques

• Part V reviews mobility and tracking using Kalman Filteringtechniques, including their application in indoor localization andGNSS systems

• Part VI covers several topics in the area of network-based orcooperative localization, introducing techniques such asinfrastructure-free local and wireless local positioningsystems

• Part VII includes several novel applications of positionlocation systems, offering many techniques and methods includingGNSS and RFID-based localization systems and wireless localpositioning systems

Many chapters feature useful MATLAB examples and theirsolutions; the examples have been designed to help readers learnfundamental algorithms for positioning and to begin their researchmore quickly. All MATLAB code is available online for download at:ftp://ftp.wiley.com/public/sci_tech_med/matlab_codes

Handbook of Position Location allows any working engineeror graduate student to quickly come up to speed in these systems.It also helps university professors teach the fundamentals ofwireless localization.

Seyed A. (Reza) Zekavat, PhD, is Associate Professor and the founder of the wireless positioning lab at Michigan Tech. Prof. Zekavat is the founder of VIEWComm. Co., a position location company. He is active on the technical program committees for several IEEE international conferences, serving as a committee chair or member, and he is currently with the IET Wireless Sensor Systems editorial board. His research has been supported by federal agencies and industries including the NSF, ARL, and National Instruments. R. Michael Buehrer, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. His research at Virginia Tech has been sponsored by several federal agencies including DARPA, ONR, and NSF, as well as by many companies, including Qualcomm, Motorola, and several others.