Abstract:
Methods and apparatuses are presented for obfuscating the locations of terrestrial wireless transceivers, including wireless access points and femtocells. According to some embodiments, a method may receive, by a mobile device, data for a terrestrial wireless transceiver, wherein the data includes location coordinates of the terrestrial wireless transceiver, and wherein the location coordinates include an error term. Additionally, the method may include determining the error term based on the data. Furthermore, the method may include determining a corrected location of the terrestrial wireless transceiver by removing the error term from the location coordinates. In some instances, the data can further include a unique identifier associated with the terrestrial wireless transceiver, and wherein the error term is further determined based on the unique identifier.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for broadcasting short interframe space information to aid in determining a round trip time are provided. The round trip time is used as an aid in locating nodes within a WiFi or WLAN network. The method begins with capturing a time of transmission of a frame by a transmitting station. The receiving station then captures the time of arrival of the frame just sent by the transmitting station. The receiving station replies with a received frame message and the time of departure is captured. The transmitting station then captures the time of arrival of the received frame message. The captured arrival and departure times of the frame and the received frame message allow the round trip time to be computed. The RTT may then be included as part of a network message.
Abstract:
Methods, systems, and devices are described that provide for wireless ranging. The methods, systems, and/or devices may include tools and techniques that provide for determining a range based on a TOD and a TOA that is adjusted based on a mean FAC. A probe may be transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver. The transmitter may receive a response, from the receiver. A strongest path within the response may be identified. A threshold may be determined. A plurality of FAC values may be identified, which exceed the threshold and precede the strongest path within the response. After the plurality of FAC values are identified, a mean FAC may be determined based at least in part on the plurality of FAC values. A TOA of the response may be adjusted based on the mean FAC. A range to the receiver may be determined based on a TOD and the adjusted TOA.
Abstract:
Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for estimating a position of a mobile device based, at least in part, on measuring differences of times of arrival of data packets transmitted to the mobile device from transmitters. In specific implementations, time-staggered quasi-matched filter correlators may apply a known waveform or data sequence to a payload of a received data packet to detect a correlation peak or correlation maximum corresponding to a time of arrival of the received data packet.
Abstract:
Systems and methods for calculating round trip time (RTT) between two wireless devices with respective clock drifts, while lowering the impact of the clock drifts on the RTT. A first RTT in a first direction is determined between a first wireless device and a second wireless device based on a first set of one or more messages exchanged between the first wireless device and the second wireless device. A second RTT in a second direction is determined between the second wireless device and the first wireless device based on a second set of one or more messages exchanged between the second wireless device and the first wireless device, and an average RTT of the first RTT and the second RTT is computed, wherein the average RTT has a low impact of the clock drifts.