Performance Evaluation of 5G-NR Positioning Accuracy Using Time Difference of Arrival Method

Ivo Müürsepp; Marika Kulmar; Osama Elghary; Muhammad Mahtab Alam; Tao Chen; Seppo Horsmanheimo; Johan Scholliers

doi:10.1109/MeditCom49071.2021.9647652

Performance Evaluation of 5G-NR Positioning Accuracy Using Time Difference of Arrival Method

Ivo Müürsepp, Marika Kulmar, Osama Elghary, Muhammad Mahtab Alam, Tao Chen, Seppo Horsmanheimo, Johan Scholliers

Tallinn University of Technology

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Abstract

In this paper we evaluate the performance of fifth generation new radio (5G NR) based positioning under realistic conditions model for cooperative connected automated mobility (CCAM) scenarios. We benchmark the performance using 3GPP release 16 proposed new positioning reference signal (PRS), of positioning in 5G NR mobile networks. Time difference of arrival (TDoA) positioning methods is one of the widely used method which is used for localization. Simulation results are showing that under line-of-sight (LOS) conditions, the desired positioning accuracy is achievable for various CCAM use-cases. In best case scenarios precision is less than 1m in 80% of cases. In more realistic cases, when there is no line of sight (NLOS) between user terminal (UT) and network nodes, then accuracy decreases significantly. Methods of automatic classification of LOS/NLOS channels are thus needed. TDoA positioning method suffers degradation of performance, when different network nodes are out of sync with each other. Thus, other methods, less sensitive to synchronization error, such as round-trip time (RTT) or angle-based measurements might be worth considering.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2021 IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (MeditCom)
Publisher	IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Pages	494-499
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-6654-4505-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MeditCom49071.2021.9647652
Publication status	Published - 7 Sept 2021
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking, MeditCom 2021 - Athens, Greece Duration: 7 Sept 2021 → 10 Sept 2021

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Conference	IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking, MeditCom 2021
Period	7/09/21 → 10/09/21

Funding

This work was supported in part from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program, within 5GROUTES project, under grant agreement No 951867, and part by the Tallinn University of Technology Development Program 2016-2022, code 2014-2020.4.01.16-0032.

Keywords

5G New Radio
Positioning Reference Signal
Radio signal-based positioning

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Müürsepp, I., Kulmar, M., Elghary, O., Alam, M. M., Chen, T., Horsmanheimo, S., & Scholliers, J. (2021). Performance Evaluation of 5G-NR Positioning Accuracy Using Time Difference of Arrival Method. In 2021 IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (MeditCom) (pp. 494-499). IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. https://doi.org/10.1109/MeditCom49071.2021.9647652

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2021 IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (MeditCom). IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, 2021. p. 494-499.

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