Saturday, 27 September 2014

LTE Positioning

Positioning defines the process of determining the positioning and/or velocity of a device using radio signals.

Location Based Services, short LBS, are a significant element in today’s service portfolio offered via a network operator’s cellular network. It starts with simple things like answering the question “Where am I?” which is very often combined with determining points of interests, such as closest restaurants, shopping possibilities or finding a route from one point to another. Further social networks like facebook, Google Plus and others allow that status updates can be linked with the current position of the user.

LTE Positioning Method
A positioning method, independent if based on satellite or mobile radio signals, consist of three steps:
1.      Providing initial assistance and information for position estimation.
2.      Execution of certain measurements and reporting of measurement results.
3.      Position estimation based on measurement results.

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