Threshold selection for UWB TOA estimation based on kurtosis analysis

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1025-1027

  Guvenc, Ismail ^a,b   Sahinoglu, Zafer ^a  

^a MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b University of South Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KURTOSIS ANALYSIS; THRESHOLD SELECTION; TIME OF ARRIVAL ESTIMATION;

BROADBAND NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

RADIO COMMUNICATION;

EID: 29744461468     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2005.1576576     Document Type: Article

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