Nonline-of-sight error mitigation in mobile location

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 560-573

  Cong, Li ^a   Zhuang, Weihua ^b  

^a Research and Development   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Angle of arrival (AOA); Mobile location; Non line of sight (NLOS) propagation; Time difference of arrival (TDOA); Wideband code division multiple access (CDMA) cellular systems

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ERRORS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); PROBLEM SOLVING;

ANGLE OF ARRIVAL (AOA); CELLULAR SYSTEMS; MOBILE LOCATION; NONLINE-OF-SIGHT (NLOS) PROPAGATION; TIME DIFFERENCE OF ARRIVAL (TDOA); WIDEBAND CODE-DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS (W-CDMA);

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 17144427652     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2004.843040     Document Type: Article

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