Advances in 5G High-Precision Positioning

Dear Colleagues,

We are inviting submissions to the Special Issue on Advances in 5G High-Precision Positioning.

High-accuracy positioning is a prerequisite for many advanced location-based services in future mobile networks. Providing position information with sufficient accuracy, high efficiency, and wide coverage can help to optimize and to automatize processes in various vertical sectors, ranging from autonomous driving to industrial IoT. In the 3GPP Release 16 specification, the LTE positioning feature is extended to accommodate enablers of 5G such as high carrier frequencies, large bandwidth, large number of antennas, D2D communication, and dense networks. Indeed, 5G-network-based positioning is expected to support accuracy of 10 m down to less than 1 m in 80% of occasions and less than 1 m indoors. To this end, research on 5G high-precision positioning is running smoothly, which shows enormous potential to deliver innovative services not previously possible and, thus, has aroused much attention from the industry, academia, and the general public.

It should be noted that research on 5G positioning focuses not only on the incremental evolution of currently operating methods such as cell-ID, RSS, and TDoA, but also on using new technologies and paradigms such as multi-RTT, DL-AoD, and UL-AoA. Apart from conventional positioning methods, multisensor fusion and intelligent algorithms are promising to overcome the challenge of robust submeter accuracy in multipath and NLoS environments. These research directions provide rich opportunities to extend 5G high-precision positioning to more ubiquitous and mobile applications.

In this Special Issue, we invite submissions exploring recent advances in the fields of 5G high-precision positioning, aiming to address more in-depth research for integrated sensing and communication in future cellular networks. Both theoretical and experimental studies are welcomed, as well as comprehensive review and survey papers.

Dr. Shengheng Liu
Guest Editor

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