Line-of-sight and non-line-of-sight links for dispersive terahertz wireless networks

Planning Non-Line-of-Sight Wireless Backhaul Networks

Reliable Line-of-Sight and Non-Line-of-Sight Propagation Channel Identification in Ultra-Wideband Wireless Networks

The paper addresses the problem of line-of-sight (LOS) vs. non-line-of-sight (NLOS) propagation link identification in ultrawideband (UWB) wireless networks, which is necessary for improving the accuracy of radiolocation and positioning applications. A LOS/NLOS likelihood hypothesis testing approach is applied based on exploiting distinctive statistical features of the channel impulse response ...

Improved line-of-sight/non-line-of-sight classification methods for pulsed ultrawideband localisation

Classification of line-of-sight (LOS) or non-LOS (NLOS) propagation is critical for most pulsed ultrawideband localisation systems. In this letter, first, the authors propose a two-dimensional (2D) LOS/NLOS classification scheme that uses skewness of the channel impulse/pulse response, which has not been used by existing work. The log-likelihood ratio of the 2D LOS/NLOS classification is used t...

Non-Parametric Non-Line-of-Sight Identification

Recently, there has been much interest in accurate determination of mobile user locations in cellular environments. A general approach to this geolocation problem is to gather time-of-arrival measurements from a number of base stations (BSs) and to estimate user locations using the traditional least square approach. However, in non-line-of-sight (NLOS) situations, measurements are significantly...

Non-line-of-sight Error Mitigation in Wireless Communication Systems

The need for determining the position of a mobile station (MS) is increasing rapidly in wireless communications systems. When there is non-line-of-sight (NLOS) path between the MS and base stations (BSs), it is possible to integrate many kinds of measurements to achieve more accurate measurements of the MS location. This paper proposed hybrid methods that utilize time of arrival (TOA) at five B...