A nonline-of-sight error-mitigation method for TOA measurements

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 641-651

  Ma, Changlin ^a,b   Klukas, Richard ^c   Lachapelle, Gérard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Centrality Communications   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distribution function (DF); Hyperbola intersection; Nonline of sight (NLOS) error; Wireless location

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ERROR ANALYSIS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

HYPERBOLA INTERSECTION; NONLINE-OF-SIGHT (NLOS) ERROR; TIME-OF-ARRIVAL MEASUREMENT; WIRELESS LOCATION;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 34147102756     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2007.891439     Document Type: Article

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