Coded anchor points for simple positioning

The present invention proposes a transmitter, such as indoor and outdoor gateways or base stations, that proactively creates a plurality of virtual anchor points associated with certain known reflectors by code to allow for easier localization of low capability receivers. By measuring propagation characteristics of three or more coded beams, such as, for example, timing of reception, low-capability receivers, even those receivers with only a single antenna, may be positioned, for example, by the transmitter or by the receivers themselves. If each beam includes, for example, a location of an anchor point, a location of a transmitter, and a transmit time, the receiver may locate itself. This has the advantage that the receiver does not have to send any information back to the transmitter. 本发明提出了一种发射器(诸如室内和室外的网关或基站)，其通过代码主动创建与某些已知反射器相关联的多个虚拟锚点以允许更容易地定位低能力接收器。通过测量三个或更多个编码波束的传播特征(诸如例如接收的定时)，低能力接收器-甚至仅具有单个天线的那些接收器-可以例如由发射器或由接收器自身定位。如果每个波束包括例如锚点的位置、发射器的位置和发送时间，则接收器可以定位其自身。这具有接收器不必将任何信息发送回到发射器的优点。