NLOS identification and mitigation for UWB localization systems

IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1573-1578

  Guvenc, Ismail ^a   Chong, Chia Chin ^a   Watanabe, Fujio ^a  

^a DOCOMO USA LABS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL STATISTICS; NON-LINE-OF-SIGHT (NLOS; ULTRAWIDEBAND CHANNEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; TRACKING (POSITION);

BROADBAND NETWORKS;

EID: 36349036457     PISSN: 15253511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCNC.2007.296     Document Type: Conference Paper

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