Real-Time Positioning Based on Millimeter Wave Device to Device Communications

Current generation mobile wireless communication networks are not suitable for real-time positioning applications because timing information is not readily available. Fifth generation (5G) cellular networks provide device to device real-time communications which can be used for real-time positioning. Millimeter-wave (mmWave) transmission is regarded as a key technology in 5G networks. In this paper, several 73-GHz mmWave waveforms are investigated. A new threshold selection algorithm for energy detector-based ranging is proposed which employs a dynamic threshold based on an artificial neural network. The positioning performance using this algorithm with mmWave waveforms is investigated.