2012文献Quantifying the advantages of joint processing in TDOA estimation.pdfVIP

2012 IEEE 7th Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM) Quantifying the Advantages of Joint Processing in TDOA Estimation Arie Yeredor School of Electrical Engineering Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, 69978, ISRAEL e-mail: arie@eng.tau.ac.il Abstract—We address the problem of passive estimation of the further complicates when possible echoes (isolated multipath Time-Difference of Arrival (TDOA) of an unknown, stochastic reflections, typical of outdoor scenarios [1]) are present in the signal, at two sensors. The key question addressed here is whether reception model (at all sensors), as it is not clear if the signal additional sensors, receiving the same signal at various relative delays, can serve to improve the accuracy in estimating the received by the additional sensors can be of any significant TDOA of interest between the first two sensors (without exploiting value, since these sensors are also subject to the presence any underlying parameterization, such as dependence on the of unknown multipath reflections, in addition to the inherent ´ transmitter’s location). We derive the Cramer-Rao Lower Bound delay uncertainty. (CRLB) on the resulting joint estimation error in a model which Having assumed that the only interest is in estimating possibly includes multipath reflections. We show analytically, that in a multipath-free scenario, at high to moderate Signal to the