A novel OTDOA positioning scheme in Heterogeneous LTE-Advanced systems

The Observed Time Difference of Arrival (OTDOA) as a major positioning method in 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) specification has been deeply researched in Long Term Evolution Advanced (LTE-A) system. This paper analyzes the new interference scenarios in Heterogeneous Network (Het-Net) and the drawbacks of conventional OTDOA method which are caused by LPN (Low Power Nodes) deployed in Het-Net. In this paper, we propose a Time division multiplex (TDM) and a Code division multiplex (CDM) scheme for positioning reference signal (PRS) transmitting to solve these problems in Het-Net. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can greatly improve the positioning accuracy compared with the conventional method and its performance meets the Federal communication commission (FCC) requirement.