METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING POSITION OF MOBILE RADIO TERMINALS

摘要

A method and apparatus are disclosed for determining more accurately, in a radio environment with time dispersion, the distance between a radio receiver (100) and radio transmitter (130), by special processing of received radio signals that have been transmitted repeatedly from the same radio transmitter (130) and are possibly subject to multipath propagation. The Time of Arrival (TOA) of the received radio signals is repeatedly estimated using channel power profiles (step 402). A TOA value near the minimum occurring TOA is selected (step 402) wherein each estimated TOA is derived from incoherent integration of a randomly chosen number of the received bursts having the same known bit sequence (step 404), in order to eliminate the influence of noise.