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3GPP air interface standards support meter-level
position location of a user in a cellular network. With wider
bandwidths and narrow antenna beamwidths available at
mmWave frequencies, cellular networks now have the potential
to provide sub-meter position location for each user. In this
work, we provide an overview of 3GPP position location
techniques that are designed for line-of-sight propagation. We
discuss additional measurements required in the 3GPP standard
that enable multipath-based non-line-of-sight position location.
Further, we validate the concepts in this paper by using field
data to test a map-based position location algorithm in an indoor
office environment which has dimensions of 35 m by 65.5 m. We
demonstrate how the fusion of angle of arrival and time of flight
information in concert with a 3-D map of the office provides a
mean accuracy of 5.72 cm at 28 GHz and 6.29 cm at 140 GHz,
over 23 receiver distances ranging from 4.2 m to 32.3 m, using a
single base station in line-of-sight and non-line-of-sight. We also
conduct a theoretical analysis of the typical error experienced
in the map-based position location algorithm and show that the
complexity of the map-based algorithm is low enough to allow
real-time implementation.
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