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Finding the location of a cellular mobile phone is one of the important features of the 3G wireless communication systems. Many valuable location based services can be enabled by this new feature. All location determination techniques which are based on cellular system signals and global positioning system (GPS) use standard trigonometric complex computation methods that are usually implemented in software. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm that uses only simple add and s hift operations in the computation and therefore can be implemented in hardware. Our results show improvements of our algorithm in computation time, implementation simplicity and location accuracy over the traditional used method.
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Salamah, M., Doukhnitch, E., Devrim, D. (2004). A Fast Hardware-Oriented Algorithm for Cellular Mobiles Positioning. In: Aykanat, C., Dayar, T., Körpeoğlu, İ. (eds) Computer and Information Sciences - ISCIS 2004. ISCIS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3280. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30182-0_28
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