Base station positioning apparatus, base station positioning method, and base station positioning program

A base station positioning method comprising:

• acquiring a time of arrival of a signal transmitted and received between a base station and a mobile terminal that constitute a wireless communication network system;
• acquiring a radio wave intensity of the signal occurring when the mobile terminal receives the signal that has been transmitted to the base station from the mobile terminal;
• estimating a distance from a position of the base station to a position of the mobile terminal based on the time of arrival acquired;
• specifying an arc that has a center at the position of the base station and a radius that is the distance estimated, specifying a straight line connecting the position of the base station and a barycentric position of a cell of the base station, and estimating a position at an intersection point between the arc and the straight line to be the position of the mobile terminal;
• acquiring a radio wave intensity for each area in a case where an interior of a service area of the wireless communication network system is divided into areas with same radio wave intensities, respectively;
• calculating a difference between the radio wave intensity for the each area acquired in the case where the interior of the service area is divided into the areas with the same radio wave intensities, and the radio wave intensity of the signal occurring when the mobile terminal receives the signal acquired, and specify an area where the difference is within a predetermined threshold value as a correction candidate area;
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• correcting the position of the mobile terminal estimated to a position on the arc within the correction candidate area in a case where the correction candidate area specified is present at a position on the arc.

A base station positioning program that causes a computer to function as:

• a time-of-arrival acquiring unit configured to acquire a time of arrival of a signal transmitted and received between a base station and a mobile terminal that constitute a wireless communication network system;
• a radio wave intensity acquiring unit configured to acquire a radio wave intensity of the signal occurring when the mobile terminal receives the signal that has been transmitted to the base station from the mobile terminal;
• a distance estimating unit configured to estimate a distance from a position of the base station to a position of the mobile terminal based on the time of arrival acquired by the time-of-arrival acquiring unit;
• a position estimating unit configured to specify an are that has a center at the position of the base station and a radius that is the distance estimated by the distance estimating unit, specify a straight line connecting the position of the base station and a barycentric position of a cell of the base station, and estimate a position at an intersection point between the arc and the straight line to be the position of the mobile terminal;
• a quality data acquiring unit configured to acquire a radio wave intensity for each area in a case where an interior of a service area of the wireless communication network system is divided into areas with same radio wave intensities, respectively;
• a correction candidate area specifying unit configured to calculate a difference between the radio wave intensity for the each area acquired by the quality data acquiring unit in the case where the interior of the service area is divided into the areas with the same radio wave intensities, and the radio wave intensity of the signal occurring when the mobile terminal receives the signal acquired by the radio wave intensity acquiring unit, and specify an area where the difference is within a predetermined threshold value as a correction candidate area;
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• a position correcting unit configured to correct the position of the mobile terminal estimated by the position estimating unit to a position on the arc within the correction candidate area in a case where the correction candidate area specified by the correction candidate area specifying unit is present at a position on the arc.