Greg

GregBurdett
Burdett
Director,
Director,Business
BusinessDevelopment
Development
Geometrix
GeometrixMobile
MobileLocation
LocationCenter
Center
Greg.Burdett@Andrew.com
Greg.Burdett@Andrew.com

How to Deploy Location-based

Services Now and in the Future

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Andrew Corporation is the foremost
global supplier of one-stop, end-to-end
radio frequency (RF) subsystem
solutions.

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 Geo-Location applications on
Mobile Location the mobile network

Gateway
MLC

Internet

Serving
MLC

Mobile Network

LCS has turned wireless networks, beyond purely

communication networks, into an instrument for
locating mobile devices and their users.

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 Location Based Services – by application
There are three principal categories of location-
enhanced services:
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1. Commercial Enterprise and Consumer Services

- Require or are enhanced by knowledge of a mobile’s position to answer
questions such as "Where's my delivery truck?”, "Where's my child?”,
asset tracking, roadside assistance, driving directions, etc. Copyright
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2. Public Safety
- Provide the location of wireless callers to emergency service centers
such as 112, 911, etc.

3. Security
- Locate and track specific individuals or items of interest

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Location Technology Characteristics

Location Typical Accuracy Yield/ Handset

Scalability Cost
Method (approx) Reliability Participation

Cell ID 1000s Meters High High No Low

Enhanced 300m to 1000s

High High No Moderate
Cell ID Meters

U-TDOA 50 to 300m High Low No High

A-GPS 10 to 50m Moderate High Yes Moderate

Hybrid 10 to 100’s
High High Yes Moderate
A-GPS Meters

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Location Solutions in a 3GPP/OMA Context

Lh ALI
HLR GMLC
GMLC/ / E2 (ESP)
SLP
SLP
Lc
SCF Core
Lg
Le (MLP)

Applications
Ls and
SMLC MSC SGSN MSC
SMLC Emergency

Lup A Gb Iu Iu
Lb
Lbis Stand
Iupc Stand
BSC RNC Alone
Alone
SMLC
SMLC
User UTDOA
UTDOA Abis GERAN UTRAN
Plane server Iub UTDOA
server UTDOA
server
server
BTS Node B
LMU
LMU LMU
LMU
LMU LMU
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SMLC : Cell and Enhanced Cell Positioning

Sector
Information
Sector
Information

Legacy
Handset Serving Base
Station Timing
(Cell Identity) Advance
Legacy
Serving Base
Serving Sector Handset Station
Information (Cell Identity)

RXLEVs

RXLEV1
Neighbor Timing
Base Station Advance
RXLEV2 Serving
1
Base
Legacy Station
Handset

Neighbor
Base Station
2

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 SMLC : A-GPS Functionality

Periodic request for GPS Reference WARN

assistance data for defined grids
Server*

PerformLocationRequest

BSC/RNC
MSC
PerformLocationResponse
Location
SS7A RRLP-MeasurePosition +
Server
GPS assistance data
RRLP- Position Info

GPS Data
Collector

A-GPS
PCF
Cell & Grid Data
• BTS Lat/Lon Cell & Grid
• Grid extent and Database
SMLC element size

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Secure User Plane Location
• Assumes measurements come from device
(SET)
• Bypasses signaling control plane to
communicate with SET
• SUPL session occurs over IP on user plane
• Network-initiated requests “stimulated” by
SMS or WAP data push
• Device provides serving Cell-ID in start
message
•SLP needs cell database to, e.g.,
generate suitable GPS assistance
data
• Lead SUPL application is for A-GPS used SET*
for LBS purposes
MLS Application/
Llp
SUPL Agent

* SET – SUPL Enabled Terminal

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 Focus on:
Hybrid A-GPS
WARN*
Periodic request for GPS
assistance data for defined
grids

Network Measurement
Requests
Network Measurements

MeasurePositionRequest + GPS
acquisition assistance data
GPS Data
Collector GPS + Network Measurements

Hybrid A-GPS
Positioning Function
Cell & Grid Data * Wide Area Reference Network (WARN)
• BTS Lat/Lon of fixed GPS receivers used to
• Grid extent and Cell & Grid
Database determine assistance data for the area
SMLC element size of coverage.

• Hybrid AGPS combines GPS measurements with other range measurements

• Range measurements obtained from network – e.g. Timing advance, Round trip time, Uplink time difference of
arrival measurements, etc.
• Handset measurements, other than GPS, also used – e.g. Downlink time of arrival measurements
• Use assumed altitude for Cell sites.
• Yield improvements are the primary benefit in environments of poor GPS acquisition (eg indoor, dense urban, etc)

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What will the future bring?
The rise of IP, VoIP, IMS and network convergence

ƒ Multi-access IP location architecture

- Need to locate subscribers beyond 3GPP/2 access
- WiFi / WiMAX Access
• Cell-id : Similar to GSM/UMTS, a Cell-id based location can be determined
• Network-based measurements : Use of WiMAX network information to determine a
more accurate location than Cell-id.
• A-GPS : Use SUPL to locate A-GPS enabled WiFi/WiMAX devices
- Fixed Access
• Locating subscribers on DSL, Cable or within Enterprises

ƒ IP Location Applications
- VoIP 911
- Converged Location Based Services, including IMS
- Security applications

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A lead application – emergency services for VoIP

NENA defined (i2) migratory architecture

Emergency network
Call Handling
Selective
Selective CAMA
IP ISUP
Router
Router
911 Call
Call ESGW
Server ESGW
Server call

ALI PAM
VoIP
VoIP
Location
Location Positioning
Positioning E2+ Local
Server
Server locn
Center
Center

Geodetic & ALI

Civil loc,n ERDB
Global ESZ
boundary data National

Civic addr
VDB
MSAG validation
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Summarizing the future
ƒ More of the same – evolving approaches to location measurement and determination
ƒ Location technologies for WiMAX, WiFi, DSL, Cable,…..
ƒ More architectures – pulling things together under the forces of convergence (VoIP 911, IMS,
etc)

Location technology
Cell and Rx
level info today is diverse,
complex, and powerful
RF survey DB Radio Camera

The future even more so.

Andrew Corporation
will be there!

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Andrew’s location technology products

Geometrix® MLC
ƒ User Plane and Control Plane Solutions

- SMLC, GMLC, SAS, and SUPL

Location Platform - SLP

ƒ Provides Any Location Technology

- CID, E-CID, U-TDOA, A-GPS, Hybrid
A-GPS
ƒ Vendor-Preferred, Operator-Preferred

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 Thank you
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