Position determination in a wireless communication system with detection and compensation for repeaters
First Claim
1. A method for determining a position of a remote terminal in a wireless communication network having included therein a plurality of transmitting sources, the method comprising:
- obtaining a set of time measurements for a set of transmitting sources, wherein each time measurement is derived based on a transmission received at the remote terminal from a respective transmitting source that is either an origination source or a repeater associated with the origination source;
identifying a particular origination source for each received time measurement;
comparing a list of originating sources for the received time measurements against a list of probable origination sources for each of at least one repeater in the network; and
determining whether the remote terminal is under a coverage of a particular repeater based on a result of the comparing.
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Abstract
Techniques to detect whether or not a remote terminal is under the coverage of a repeater within a wireless communication network, which may be based on (1) a list of base stations expected to be received while under the repeater'"'"'s coverage, (2) the characterized environment of the repeater, and/or (3) the propagation delays for a transmission received at the remote terminal. Additional ambiguity resulting from being under a repeater'"'"'s coverage may also be accounted for and/or compensated by (1) discarding time measurements from repeated base stations, (2) adjusting the processing for position estimation to account for the additional ambiguity due to the repeater, (3) computing a series of position estimates based on multiple transmissions received from the same originating base station and selecting the best estimate, and/or (4) computing a series of position estimates based on multiple transmissions from multiple originating base stations and selecting the best estimate.
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45 Claims
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1. A method for determining a position of a remote terminal in a wireless communication network having included therein a plurality of transmitting sources, the method comprising:
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obtaining a set of time measurements for a set of transmitting sources, wherein each time measurement is derived based on a transmission received at the remote terminal from a respective transmitting source that is either an origination source or a repeater associated with the origination source;
identifying a particular origination source for each received time measurement;
comparing a list of originating sources for the received time measurements against a list of probable origination sources for each of at least one repeater in the network; and
determining whether the remote terminal is under a coverage of a particular repeater based on a result of the comparing. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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7. A method for determining a position of a remote terminal in a wireless communication network having included therein a plurality of transmitting sources, wherein each transmitting source is either an origination source for a transmission or a repeater associated with the origination source, the method comprising:
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cataloging an environment type for each repeater within the network;
obtaining a set of time measurements for a set of transmitting sources, wherein each time measurement is derived based on a transmission received at the remote terminal from either an origination source or its associated repeater; and
determining whether the remote terminal is under a coverage of a particular repeater based on the cataloged environment type for each repeater and the received time measurements.
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12. A method for determining a position of a remote terminal in a wireless communication network having included therein a plurality of transmitting sources, the method comprising:
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obtaining at least one time measurement for at least one transmitting source, wherein each received time measurement is derived based on a transmission received at the remote terminal from a transmitting source that is either an origination source or a repeater associated with the origination source;
determining a propagation delays associated with each received time measurement;
comparing the propagation delays for each received time measurement against a threshold value for the origination source associated with the time measurement; and
determining whether the remote terminal is under a coverage of a particular repeater based on a result of the comparing.
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16. A method for determining a position of a remote terminal in a wireless communication network having included therein a plurality of transmitting sources, the method comprising:
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obtaining a set of time measurements for a set of transmitting sources, wherein each time measurement is derived based on a transmission received at the remote terminal from a transmitting source that is either an origination source or a repeater associated with the origination source;
identifying a particular origination source for each received time measurement;
determining whether the identified origination source for each received time measurement is associated with a repeater;
discarding time measurements for selected ones of origination sources determined to be associated with repeaters; and
determining an initial position estimate for the remote terminal based on remaining time measurements not discarded.
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22. A method for determining a position of a remote terminal in a wireless communication network having included therein a plurality of transmitting sources, the method comprising:
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obtaining a set of time measurements for a set of transmitting sources, wherein each time measurement is derived based on a transmission received at the remote terminal from a transmitting source that is either an origination source or a repeater associated with the origination source;
identifying a particular origination source for each received time measurement;
determining an initial position estimate for the remote terminal based on the received time measurements;
determining whether the origination source for at least one time measurement used to determine the initial position estimate for the remote terminal is associated with a repeater; and
generating one or more search windows for the remote terminal based on the initial position estimate for the remote terminal, wherein each search window is used to search for a respective GPS satellite. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 40, 41)
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29. A method for determining a position of a remote terminal in a wireless communication network having included therein a plurality of transmitting sources, the method comprising:
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obtaining a set of time measurements for a set of transmitting sources, wherein each time measurement is derived based on a transmission received at the remote terminal from a transmitting source that is either an origination source or a repeater associated with the origination source, and wherein a plurality of time measurements are received for a plurality of transmissions from a particular origination source or its associated repeater;
computing a plurality of position estimates based on the received time measurements; and
selecting one of the computed position estimates as an initial position estimate for the remote terminal.
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31. A method for determining a position of a remote terminal in a wireless communication network having included therein a plurality of transmitting sources, the method comprising:
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obtaining a set of time measurements for a set of transmitting sources, wherein each time measurement is derived based on a transmission received at the remote terminal from a transmitting source that is either an origination source or a repeater associated with the origination source;
computing a plurality of position estimates based on the received time measurements and a plurality of network hypotheses, wherein each network hypothesis corresponds to a respective combination of origination sources and repeaters hypothesized to be the transmitting sources for the plurality of time measurements used to compute the position estimate for remote terminal; and
selecting one of the computed position estimates as an initial position estimate for the remote terminal.
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39. A remote terminal in a wireless communication network, comprising:
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a receiver unit configured to receive, process, and digitize a received signal to provide samples;
a demodulator coupled to the receiver unit and configured to receive and process the samples to provide a set to time measurements for a set of transmitting sources, wherein each time measurement is derived based on a transmission received at the remote terminal from a respective transmitting source that is either an origination source or a repeater associated with the origination source;
a controller operatively coupled to the demodulator and configured to receive the time measurements and further configured to receive or derive one or more search windows based on an initial position estimate for the remote terminal, wherein each search window is used to search for a respective GPS satellite; and
a GPS receiver operatively coupled to the controller and configured to search for one or more GPS satellites in accordance with the one or more search windows.
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42. A processing unit in a wireless communication network, comprising:
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a transceiver configured to exchange data with a network entity;
a receive data processor coupled to the transceiver and configured to receive from a remote terminal a set of time measurements for a set of transmitting sources, wherein each time measurement is derived based on a transmission received at the remote terminal from a transmitting source that is either an origination source or a repeater associated with the origination source; and
a controller coupled to the receive data processor and configured to determine whether the remote terminal is under a coverage of a repeater within the network and to derive an initial position estimate for the remote terminal based on the received time measurements. - View Dependent Claims (43, 44, 45)
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