Research Summaries

Back Geolocation of WiMax/4G Mobile Devices

Fiscal Year 2009
Division Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department Electrical & Computer Engineering
Investigator(s) McEachen, II, John C.
Sponsor National Reconnaissance Office (DoD)
Summary WiMax is an emerging technology for metropolitan-area, high data rate access. It is considered the leading contender for 4G mobile phone adoption. This was recently backed by a $3.2B investment by a consortium of Intel, Google, Sprint and others. The objective of this new research is to develop precision geolocation techniques based on control messages used by WiMax basestations and subscribers. This will be done through analysis of traditional geolocation techniques and modification of the computational constraints to incorporate the WiMax control information. This approach leverages prior knowledge of mobile phone geolocation with new knowledge of the WiMax signal. Validation will be conducted through simulation of WiMax intercept under a variety of conditions.
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