TDOA estimation method based on frequency domain decimation

The estimation of Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) stands as a pivotal aspect of TDOA localization. This paper explores the TDOA estimation method utilizing decimation compression sampling for general signals and introduces a decimation compression sampling technique grounded in convex optimization. Simulation outcomes reveal that for signals possessing limited frequency domain sparsity, the data compression methodology advocated in this paper, in contrast to the traditional decimation compression method predicated on amplitude spectrum sorting, notably mitigates the root mean square error (RMSE) performance loss in Time Difference Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE).