CoO - Cell of Origin

Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits

CoO - Cell of Origin

The cell-of-origin (COO) technique is a basic mobile positioning technique that considers the unique identifiers of base stations and in some cases their locations. More sophisticated versions of this technique analyze information from a large number of cells.

This method is used mainly for positioning in cellular networks, where accuracy of the order of a few hundred meters is achieved with no need for additional information. The smaller the cells are, the more accurate the positioning will be.