MARVEL: multiple antenna based relative vehicle localizer

Access to relative location of nearby vehicles on the local roads or on the freeways is useful for providing critical alerts to the drivers, thereby enhancing their driving experience as well as reducing the chances of accidents. The problem of determining the relative location of two vehicles can be broken into two smaller subproblems: (i) Relative lane localization, where a vehicle determines if the other vehicle is in left lane, same lane or right lane with respect to it, and (ii) Relative front-rear localization where it needs to be determined which of the two vehicles is ahead of the other on the road. In this paper, we propose a novel antenna diversity based solution, MARVEL, that solves the two problems of determining the relative location of two vehicles. MARVEL has two components: (i) a smartphone; and (ii) four wireless radios. Unlike exisiting technologies, MARVEL can also determine relative location of vehicles that are not in the immediate neighborhood, thereby providing ...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2012
• Where: MOBICOM
• Authors: Dong Li, Tarun Bansal, Zhixue Lu, Prasun Sinha
• Keywords: Communications, Computer Communication Networks, Localization Accuracy, Minimal Hardware Requirements, MOBICOM 2012