Ranging in a dense multipath environment using an UWB radio link

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1677-1683

  Lee, Joon Yong ^a,b   Scholtz, Robert A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Handong University   (South Korea)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Delay estimation; Distance measurement; Multipath channels; Ultra wideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; RANGE FINDING;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB) RADIO LINKS;

RADIO LINKS;

EID: 0036902913     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2002.805060     Document Type: Article

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