Advanced GNSS-5G Hybrid Positioning Technologies and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) are able to provide accurate positioning services in open-sky environments. However, localization in challenging scenarios such as urban canyons is still an open issue. The fifth-generation (5G) communication system is well known for its advantages in communication. Benefitting from key enabling technologies such as smaller cells, higher carrier frequency, low latency and multiple-input–multiple-output (MIMO), 5G also has the potential capability of submeter accuracy positioning.

GNSS–5G hybrid positioning and 5G-aided hybrid cooperative positioning become promising research topics with the development of the 5G standard. This Special Issue is intended for the presentation of new ideas and experimental results in the field of GNSS–5G hybrid positioning as well as cooperative positioning from theory analysis, algorithm design, and performance evaluation to its practical applications.

Areas relevant to GNSS–5G hybrid positioning include but are not limited to novel positioning algorithms, signal processing, integrity monitoring, reliability enhancement, cooperative positioning, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning in the context of intelligent transportation systems (ITS), the Internet of Things (IoT), and wireless sensor networks (WSN). 

Prof. Dr. Hongbo Zhao
Prof. Dr. Xiaolin Meng
Dr. Chen Zhuang
Prof. Dr. Qiuzhao Zhang
Guest Editors

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