November 12, 2015
By GPS World staff
An alternative to GNSS in urban canyons can be provided by signals from cellular base stations, particularly new signals from long-term evolution (LTE) networks, since LTE coverage will be high in cities. Wide LTE downlink bandwidth provides good resolution of multipath components, which also assists positioning.
A test used a universal software radio peripheral N210 synchronized to a GPS-locked Rubidium frequency standard. A personal computer stored LTE data samples together with GNSS sentences from a u-blox LEA-6T module. A Matlab-algorithm did the complete post-processing, extracting pseudoranges for the LTE base station and calculating the position solution.
