Position measuring system and method using wireless broadband (WIBRO) signal

• US 20070004430A1
• Filed: 07/05/2006
• Published: 01/04/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/04/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Seoul National University Industry Foundation (Seoul National University)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Seoul National University Industry Foundation (Seoul National University)
• Inventors: Hong, Hyun-Su, Hyun, Moon-Pil, Kim, Jin-Won, Jung, Hee, Lee, Jang-Gyu
• Application Number:
  US11/481,071
• Publication Number:
  US 20070004430A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.100
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/0236 Assistance data, e.g. base station almanac
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/10 Position of receiver fixed by co-ordinating a plurality of position lines defined by path-difference measurements , e.g. omega or decca systemsG01S5/12 takes precedence ; beacons and receivers cooperating therewith G01S1/306, G01S1/308
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management

Abstract

Provided is a position measuring system and method using a Wireless Broadband (WiBro) signal. The position measuring system measures the position of a terminal using relative delay information that is a parameter of the WiBro signal, used for a hand-over. Since the position of a terminal is measured using a parameter for a hand-over, additional data measurement is not required for the position measurement. Furthermore, efficiency in the use of a parameter of a WiBro system can be improved by using a parameter used only in the hand-over for position measurement.

Claims

1. A position measuring system using a Wireless Broadband (WiBro) signal, comprising:

a main base station for providing information about neighboring base stations and transmitting a neighboring base station scan result;

a terminal for receiving the information about the neighboring base stations, scanning the neighboring base stations in response to a position measurement request, and transmitting the neighboring base station scan result to the main base station; and

a Position Determination Entity (PDE) for measuring the position of the terminal using relative delay information between the main base station and the neighboring base stations, which is included in the neighboring base station scan result from the main base station, and base station position information.

2. The position measuring system of claim 1, wherein there are at least two pieces of relative delay information.

3. The position measuring system of claim 1, wherein the PDE measures the position of the terminal using a distance difference between the terminal and the neighboring base stations, acquired using the relative delay information and the base station position information.

4. The position measuring system of claim 1, wherein the PDE stores the base station position information corresponding to base station ID information.

5. The position measuring system of claim 3, wherein the PDE extracts the relative delay information and base station ID information from the neighboring base station scan result.

6. The position measuring system of claim 5, wherein the PDE measures the position of the terminal using the relative delay information and base station position information corresponding to the base station ID information.

7. The position measuring system of claim 1, wherein the PDE measures the position of the terminal using a trigonometric measurement method.

8. The position measuring system of claim 1, further comprising a control station located between the main base station and the PDE for receiving the neighboring base station scan result from the main base station and providing the neighboring base station scan result to the PDE.

9. The position measuring system of claim 1, wherein the terminal transmits a position measurement request message including a neighboring base station scan information request to the main base station in response to the position measurement request, receives the neighboring base station scan information from the main base station, and scans the neighboring base stations.

10. The position measuring system of claim 1, wherein the terminal communicates with the PDE using an Internet Protocol (IP).

11. The position measuring system of claim 1, wherein the PDE provides to the terminal a position measurement request message including neighboring base station scan information through the main base station in response to the position measurement request to cause the terminal to scan the neighboring base stations.

12. A position measuring system using a Wireless Broadband (WiBro) signal, comprising:

a Position Determination Entity (PDE) for providing base station position information;

a main base station for providing information about neighboring base stations; and

a terminal for scanning the neighboring base stations in response to a position measurement request, measuring relative delay information between the main base station and the neighboring base stations, and measuring the position of the terminal using the relative delay information and the base station position information provided from the PDE.

13. The position measuring system of claim 12, wherein there are at least two pieces of relative delay information.

14. The position measuring system of claim 12, wherein the terminal calculates a distance difference between the terminal and the neighboring base stations, using the relative delay information, and measures its position using the calculated distance difference and the base station position information.

15. The position measuring system of claim 12, wherein the PDE provides the base station position information corresponding to base station ID information transmitted from the terminal.

16. The position measuring system of claim 12, wherein the PDE broadcasts the base station position information corresponding to base station ID information through the main base station.

17. The position measuring system of claim 15, further comprising a control station for providing the base station ID information to the PDE.

18. A position measuring method using a Wireless Broadband (WiBro) signal, comprising the steps of:

providing by a main base station to a terminal information about neighboring base stations;

scanning by the terminal the neighboring base stations and transmitting by the terminal a neighboring base station scan result to a Position Determination Entity (PDE); and

measuring by the PDE the position of the terminal using relative delay information between the main base station and the neighboring base stations, which is included in the neighboring base station scan result, and previously stored base station position information.

19. The position measuring method of claim 18, wherein there are at least two pieces of relative delay information.

20. The position measuring method of claim 18, wherein the PDE measures the position of the terminal using a distance difference between the terminal and the neighboring base stations acquired using the relative delay information and the base station position information.

21. The position measuring method of claim 20, wherein the step of measuring the position of the terminal using the distance difference uses a trigonometric measurement method.

22. The position measuring method of claim 18, wherein the step of scanning the neighboring base stations comprises the steps of:

transmitting by the terminal a position measurement request message including a neighboring base station scan information request to the PDE in response to the position measurement request;

commanding by the PDE the main base station to provide the neighboring base station scan information to the terminal upon receipt of the position measurement request message;

providing by the main base station the neighboring base station scan information to the terminal; and

receiving by the terminal the neighboring base station scan information from the main base station and scanning the neighboring base stations.

23. The position measuring method of claim 18, wherein the terminal communicates with the PDE using Internet Protocol (IP).

24. The position measuring method of claim 18, wherein the step of scanning the neighboring base stations comprises the steps of:

transmitting by the PDE a position measurement request message to cause the main base station to provide the neighboring base station scan information to the terminal in response to the position measurement request;

providing by the main base station the neighboring base station scan information to the terminal; and

scanning by the terminal the neighboring base stations using the neighboring base station scan information transmitted from the main base station.

25. The position measuring method of claim 18, further comprising the step of receiving by a control station located between the main base station and the PDE the neighboring base station scan result from the main base station and providing by the control station the received neighboring base station scan result to the PDE.

26. The position measuring method of claim 18, wherein the step of measuring the position of the terminal comprises the steps of:

receiving by the PDE the neighboring base station scan result of the terminal;

extracting relative delay information between the main base station and the neighboring base stations, which is included in the received neighboring base station scan result, and base station ID information; and

measuring the position of the terminal using the extracted relative delay information and the base station position information corresponding to the base station ID information.

27. A position measuring method using a Wireless Broadband (WiBro) signal, comprising the steps of:

receiving by a terminal information about neighboring base stations from a main base station;

providing to the terminal base station position information from a Position Determination Entity (PDE);

scanning by the terminal the neighboring base stations and measuring relative delay between the main base station and the neighboring base stations; and

measuring by the terminal its position using the relative delay information and the base station position information.

28. The position measuring method of claim 27, wherein there are at least two pieces of relative delay information.

29. The position measuring method of claim 27, wherein the terminal calculates a distance difference between itself and the neighboring base stations using the relative delay information and measures its position using the calculated distance difference the base station position information.

30. The position measuring method of claim 29, wherein the measurement of the position of the terminal using the distance difference uses a trigonometric measurement method.

31. The position measuring method of claim 27, wherein the step of being provided with the base station position information comprises the steps of:

transmitting by the terminal IDs of the main base station and the neighboring base stations to the PDE in response to a position measurement request; and

providing to the terminal base station position information corresponding to the base station ID information among previously stored base station position information from the PDE.

32. The position measuring method of claim 27, wherein the terminal communicates with the PDE using Internet Protocol (IP).

33. The position measuring method of claim 27, wherein the step of scanning the neighboring base stations comprises the steps of:

transmitting by the PDE a position measurement request message to the main base station to cause the main base station to provide neighboring base station scan information to the terminal;

providing by the main base station the neighboring base station scan information to the terminal; and

scanning by the terminal the neighboring base stations using the neighboring base station scan information received from the main base station.

34. A position measuring system using a Wireless Broadband (WiBro) signal, comprising:

a terminal for transmitting a position measurement request message in response to a position measurement request, scanning neighboring base stations, and transmitting a neighboring base station scan result; and

a Position Determination Entity (PDE) for receiving the position measurement request message from the terminal and, upon receipt of a neighboring base station scan result, measuring the position of the terminal using the neighboring base station scan result.

35. The position measuring system of claim 34, wherein the terminal transmits the position measurement request message and the neighboring base station scan result to the PDE using one of the IP address of the PDE and a WiBro network.

36. The position measuring system of claim 35, wherein all messages from the terminal are transmitted directly to the PDE when the IP address of the PDE is used for the transmission.

37. The position measuring system of claim 34, wherein the position measurement request message is a MOB_SCN_REQ message in which a code value of a specific field is changed to indicate that the MOB_NBR_REQ message is intended for position measurement.

38. The position measuring system of claim 35, further comprising:

a base station for broadcasting a MOB_NBR_ADV message including information about the neighboring base stations and transmitting a MOB_SCN_RSP message to the terminal after incorporating in the MOB_SCN_RSP message information required for scanning the neighboring base stations in response to the position measurement request message; and

a control station for transmitting and receiving messages between the base station and the PDE.

39. The position measuring system of claim 38, wherein all messages from the terminal are transmitted to the PDE via the base station and the control station when the WiBro network is used for the transmission.

40. The position measuring system of claim 34, wherein the PDE measures the position of the terminal using relative delay information between the main base station and the neighboring base stations, which is included in the neighboring base station scan result, and base station position information.

41. The position measuring system of claim 38, wherein the terminal scans the neighboring base stations using information included in the MOB_NBR_ADV message and the MOB_SCN_RSP message.

42. The position measuring system of claim 38, wherein the base station transmits the MOB_SCN_RSP message after changing a code value of a specific field of the MOB_SCN_RSP message to indicate that the MOB_SCN_RSP message is intended for position measurement.

43. A position measuring system using a Wireless Broadband (WiBro) signal, comprising:

a Position Determination Entity (PDE) for transmitting a position measurement request message in response to a position measurement request; and

a terminal for scanning neighboring base stations upon receipt of the position measurement request message and transmitting a neighboring base station scan result,

wherein upon receipt of the neighboring base station scan result from the terminal, the PDE measures the position of the terminal using the neighboring base station scan result.

44. The position measuring system of claim 43, wherein the PDE transmits the position measurement request message to the terminal using one of the IP address of the terminal and a WiBro network.

45. The position measuring system of claim 44, wherein the PDE transmits the position measurement request message directly to the terminal when the IP address of the terminal is used for the transmission.

46. The position measuring system of claim 44, further comprising:

a base station for broadcasting a MOB_NBR_ADV message including information about the neighboring base stations and transmitting a MOB_SCN_RSP message to the terminal after incorporating in the MOB_SCN_RSP message information required for scanning the neighboring base stations in response to the position measurement request message; and

a control station for transmitting and receiving messages between the base station and the PDE.

47. The position measuring system of claim 46, wherein the neighboring base station scan result from the terminal is transmitted to the PDE via the base station and the control station when the WiBro network is used for the transmission.

48. The position measuring system of claim 43, wherein the neighboring base station scan result from the terminal is transmitted directly to the PDE when the IP address of the terminal is used for the transmission.

49. The position measuring system of claim 46, wherein the PDE transmits the position measurement request message to the terminal via the base station and the control station when using the WiBro network.

50. The position measuring system of claim 46, wherein the base station transmits the MOB_SCN_RSP message after changing a code value of a specific field of the MOB_SCN_RSP message to indicate that the MOB_SCN_RSP message is intended for position measurement.

51. A position measuring method using a Wireless Broadband (WiBro) signal, comprising the steps of:

scanning, by a terminal, neighboring base stations in response to a position measurement request and transmitting, by the terminal, a neighboring base station scan result; and

receiving by a Position Determination Entity (PDE) the position measurement request message from the terminal and, measuring by a Position Determination Entity (PDE) the position of the terminal using the received neighboring base station scan result.

52. The position measuring method of claim 51, further comprising:

transmitting by the terminal a position measurement request message to the PDE in response to the position measurement request; and

receiving by the terminal information about the neighboring base stations broadcasted from a base station and receiving by the terminal a response message including information required for scanning the neighboring base stations in response to the position measurement request message.

53. The position measuring method of claim 52, wherein the neighboring base stations are scanned using the broadcasted information and the response message, and the neighboring base station scan result includes relative delay information between the base station and the neighboring base stations.

54. The position measuring method of claim 52, further comprising the step of receiving by a control base station the neighboring base station scan result between the base station and the PDE received by the base station from the terminal, and providing by the control base station the received neighboring base station scan result to the PDE.

55. The position measuring method of claim 54, wherein all messages from the terminal are transmitted directly to the PDE when an IP address of the PDE is used for the transmission.

56. The position measuring method of claim 54, wherein all messages from the terminal are transmitted to the PDE via the base station and the control station when a WiBro network is used for the transmission.

57. The position measuring method of claim 52, wherein the response message is transmitted after a code value of its specific field is changed to indicate that it is intended for position measurement.