A method and apparatus for estimating the location of a wireless terminal
are disclosed. The location of the wireless terminal is estimated based
on one or more signal strength measurements in conjunction with: (i) one
or more angle-of-arrival measurements, (ii) one or more time-of-arrival
measurements, or (iii) a combination of (i) and (ii). At each measurement
time, the illustrative embodiment (a) determines the candidate locations
for the wireless terminal, (b) computes a measurement likelihood function
for any signal strength measurements that are available at that time, (c)
computes a measurement likelihood function for any geometry-of-arrival
measurements that are available at that time, (d) computes a joint
likelihood function for all measurements available at that time, and (e)
updates the location probability distribution for the wireless terminal
with the joint measurement likelihood function. Estimates of the location
of the wireless terminal are obtained from the location probability
distribution.