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Our goal is to present a representative methodology to simulate and assess their hybrid positioning capabilities over outdoor urban, suburban and rural scenarios. A novel scenario definition is proposed to integrate the network density of 5G deployments with the visibility masks of GNSS satellites, which helps to generate correlated scenarios of both technologies. Then, a generic and representative modeling of the 5G and GNSS observables is presented for snapshot positioning, which is suitable for standard protocols. The simulations results indicate that GNSS drives the achievable accuracy of its hybridisation with 5G cmWave, because non-line-of-sight (NLoS) conditions can limit the cmWave localization accuracy to around 20 m. The 5G performance is significantly improved with the use of mmWave positioning with dominant line-of-sight (LoS) conditions, which can even achieve sub-meter localization with one or more base stations. Therefore, these results show that NLoS conditions need to be weighted in 5G localization, in order to complement and outperform GNSS positioning over urban environments.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s18103220","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,9,24]],"date-time":"2018-09-24T10:38:49Z","timestamp":1537785529000},"page":"3220","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":56,"title":["Methodology for Simulating 5G and GNSS High-Accuracy Positioning"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"18","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5186-4904","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jos\u00e9 A.","family":"Del Peral-Rosado","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Telecommunications and Systems Engineering, Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vall\u00e8s, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0553-6010","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jani","family":"Saloranta","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, 90014 Oulu, Finland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Giuseppe","family":"Destino","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, 90014 Oulu, Finland"},{"name":"Centre for Telecommunication Research, King\u2019s College London, London WC2 R2LF, UK"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5392-6005","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jos\u00e9 A.","family":"L\u00f3pez-Salcedo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Telecommunications and Systems Engineering, Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vall\u00e8s, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2494-6872","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Gonzalo","family":"Seco-Granados","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Telecommunications and Systems Engineering, Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vall\u00e8s, Spain"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,9,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"3GPP TR 22.872 (2018). 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