{"595968":{"#nid":"595968","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Ph.D. Dissertation Defense - Paul Garver","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETitle\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cem\u003E:\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMAC Layer Assisted Localization in Wireless Environments with Multiple Sensors and Multiple Emitters\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECommittee:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Edward Coyle, ECE, Chair , Advisor\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. John Barry, ECE\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. David Anderson, ECE\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Randal Abler, ECE\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Kishore Ramachandran, CoC\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract: \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExtreme emitter density (EED) RF environments, de\ufb01ned as 10k-100k emitters within a footprint of less than 1 square kilometer, are becoming increasingly common with the proliferation of personal devices containing myriad communication standards (e.g. WLAN, Bluetooth, 4G, etc). Attendees at concerts, sporting events, and other such large-scale events desire to be connected at all times, creating tremendous spectrum management challenges, especially in unlicensed frequencies such as 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, or 900 MHz Industrial, Scienti\ufb01c, and Medical (ISM) bands. In licensed bands, there are often critical communi cation systems such as two-way radios for emergency personnel which must be free from interference.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EResearch is conducted to improve localization in these EED RF environments by exploiting side information available at the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer. The primary contributions of this research are: (1) A testbed in Bobby Dodd football stadium consisting of three spatially distributed, time-synchronized RF Sensor Nodes (RFSN) collecting and archiving complex baseband samples for algorithm development and validation. (2) A modeling framework and analytical results on the bene\ufb01ts of exploiting the structure of the MAC layer for associating physical layer measurements, such as Time Di\ufb00erence of Arrivals (TDoA), to emitters. (3) A three-strategy localization algorithm ex ploiting time between packets and a constrained geometry to shrink the error ellipse of the emitter position estimate. The results are expected to improve localization accuracy in wireless environments when multiple sensors observe multiple emitters using a known communications protocol within a constrained geometry.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"MAC Layer Assisted Localization in Wireless Environments with Multiple Sensors and Multiple Emitters"}],"uid":"28475","created_gmt":"2017-09-14 20:35:50","changed_gmt":"2017-09-14 20:35:50","author":"Daniela Staiculescu","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2017-09-25T16:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2017-09-25T18:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2017-09-25T18:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2017-09-25 20:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2017-09-25 22:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2017-09-25 22:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"434381","name":"ECE Ph.D. Dissertation Defenses"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"100811","name":"Phd Defense"},{"id":"1808","name":"graduate students"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78771","name":"Public"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}