Dynamic PL&T using Two Reference Nodes Equipped with Steered Directional Antenna for Significant PL&T Accuracy

TL;DR

This paper introduces a dynamic PL&T method using two steerable directional antennas for improved accuracy in MANETs, outperforming traditional triangulation with omnidirectional antennas.

Contribution

It proposes a novel dynamic PL&T approach with only two reference nodes and directional antennas, enhancing tracking accuracy and addressing multipath fading effects.

Findings

Achieves over 90% tracking accuracy with low BERs

Significantly improves PL&T accuracy over existing methods

Effective multipath fading mitigation using KV transform coding

Abstract

Dynamic Position Location and Tracking (PL&T) is proposed deploying the integrated approach of zone finding and triangulation using two friendly nodes equipped with Steered Directional Antenna (DA) in Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANET). This approach allows the system to use only two references instead of a typical 3 references for a straight triangulation. Moreover, the performance of the proposed algorithm with references using directional antennas shows significant improvement over triangulation using references with Omnidirectional antennas as the beam power is concentrated. However, dynamic switching of reference nodes is frequently required as the target moves outside the predicted zone. This paper presents a better tracking accuracy in using proposed dynamic PL&T as compared to other PL&T techniques. The multipath fading is also addressed with the use of KV transform coding technique which uses forward error correction and sample interleaving achieves greater than 90% tracking accuracy with BERs of 10-6 or better.