TOA estimation for IR-UWB systems with different transceiver types

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1876-1886

  Guvenc, Ismail ^a,b   Sahinoglu, Zafer ^a,c   Orlik, Philip V ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b University of South Florida   (United States)

^c MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy detector; Impulse radio (IR); Ranging; Stored reference (SR); Subsampling; Time of arrival (TOA) estimation; Transceivers; Transmitted reference (TR)

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DETECTORS; IMPULSE RADIO (IR); STORED-REFERENCE (SR); SUBSAMPLING; TIME-OF-ARRIVAL (TOA) ESTIMATION; TRANSMITTED-REFERENCE (TR);

GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; RADIO COMMUNICATION; RANGE FINDING; TRANSCEIVERS;

BROADBAND NETWORKS;

EID: 33645897667     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2006.872044     Document Type: Conference Paper

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