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Timestamp: 2019-04-25 04:04:21+00:00

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Position location is an exciting area that will become pervasive as wireless moves up to millimeter wave and terahertz frequencies. The greater bandwidths provide enhanced time resolution which maps directly to physical distance, and the directive antenna arrays provide angle of arrival and departure information.
NYU WIRELESS is developing fundamental knowledge and tools for implementing accurate position location that can become part of future wireless standards. See this lecture for the promise of THz and the new applications, including position location, and see this early paper that shows how machine learning and data fusion can provide accurate (sub meter) positioning accuracy with simple and real-time computing methods. Work is continuing with the use of ray tracing, as well as indoor, outdoor, and vehicle to vehicle (v2v) measurements and modeling.
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