Relative location estimation in wireless sensor networks

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 2137-2148

  Patwari, Neal ^a   Hero III, Alfred O ^a   Perkins, Matt ^b   Correal, Neiyer S ^b   O'Dea, Robert J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cram r Rao bound; Localization; Radio channel measurement; Self configuration; Sensor position location estimation; Signal strength; Time of arrival

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHANNEL CAPACITY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 0042665374     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2003.814469     Document Type: Article

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