Effects of system and environment parameters on the performance of network-based mobile station position estimators

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 163-180

  Botteron, Cyril ^a   Host Madsen, Anders ^b   Fattouche, Michel ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b University of Hawaii at Manoa   (United States)

^c Cell Loc Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Angle estimation; Asymptotic; Calibration errors; Cramer Rao lower bound (CRLB); Delay estimation; GSM; IS 95; Maximum likelihood; Multilateral; Multipath; Network based; Nonline of sight (NLoS); Position estimation; System parameters

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

CRAMER-RAO LOWER BOUND; DELAY ESTIMATION; MOBILE STATION; MULTILATERAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; SECOND GENERATION CELLULAR SYSTEM;

MOBILE RADIO SYSTEMS;

EID: 1242286056     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2003.822029     Document Type: Article

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