POSITIONING IN A MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

Abstract

An apparatus, method and computer program are disclosed relating to positioning in a mobile communication system. One operation of the method may comprise receiving, by a target device of a mobile communications network, reference data from each of a plurality of nodes associated with a first positioning session, the reference data from a particular node representing the position of the particular node. Another operation may comprise determining, by the target device, for each of a plurality of pairs of the nodes, whether first and second nodes of the pair are collinear based at least in part on the reference data from the first and second nodes. Another operation may comprise, responsive to determining that at least one of the pairs has collinear first and second nodes, adding of one or more new nodes, not associated with the first positioning session, to a subsequent positioning session with at least some nodes of the first positioning session, wherein the nodes are configured to transmit positioning signals to the target device for the target device to determine its own position.

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