PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Tiberius, Christian
AU  - Janssen, Gerard
AU  - Koelemeij, Jeroen
AU  - Dierikx, Erik
AU  - Diouf,, Cherif
AU  - Dun, Han
TI  - Decimeter Positioning in an Urban Environment Through a Scalable Optical-Wireless Network
AID  - 10.33012/navi.589
DP  - 2023 Sep 21
TA  - NAVIGATION: Journal of the Institute of Navigation
PG  - navi.589
VI  - 70
IP  - 3
4099  - https://navi.ion.org/content/70/3/navi.589.short
4100  - https://navi.ion.org/content/70/3/navi.589.full
SO  - NAVIGATION2023 Sep 21; 70
AB  - This paper presents a terrestrial networked positioning system that obtains a reliable time reference from a national time scale realization and distributes it in a prototype to six roadside base stations through a fiber-optic Gigabit Ethernet network. Wireless wideband signals are transmitted by the base stations, thereby enabling positioning by a mobile receiver with an accuracy of one decimeter in a multipath urban environment. The scalability and compatibility of this system with existing telecommunication-network technologies paves the way for wide-area global navigation satellite system-independent back-up systems for timing and positioning with improved coverage and performance. The results presented in this paper are based on research carried out within the scope of a project funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO, project 13970).