NLOS error mitigation for UWB ranging in dense multipath environments

IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1567-1572

  Wu, Shaohua ^a   Ma, Yongkui ^a   Zhang, Qinyu ^a   Zhang, Naitong ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Multipath; Non line of sight (NLOS); Ranging; Ultra wideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; ERROR ANALYSIS; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ERROR MITIGATION; MULTIPATH ENVIRONMENTS; NON-LINE-OF-SIGHT (NLOS); ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

BROADBAND NETWORKS;

EID: 36348937721     PISSN: 15253511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCNC.2007.295     Document Type: Conference Paper

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