Estimating position of mobile terminals from path loss measurements with survey data

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 51-62

  McGuire, M ^a   Plataniotis, K N ^a   Venetsanopoulos, A N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mobile terminal location; Robust estimation; Wireless communications

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DIGITAL DEVICES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

KERNEL DENSITY FUNCTIONS; LINE OF SIGHT (LOS); MOBILE TERMINAL LOCATION; ROBUST ESTIMATION;

CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS;

EID: 0142191435     PISSN: 15308669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcm.49     Document Type: Review

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