Pulse shape distortion and ranging accuracy in UWB-based body area networks for full-body motion capture and gait analysis

GLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 3775-3780

  Di Renzo, Marco ^a   Buehrer, R Michael ^b   Torres, Jaime ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COST REDUCTION; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); SENSORS; WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

BODY AREA NETWORKS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSES; PULSE SHAPE DISTORTION; TIME-OF-FLIGHT;

GAIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 39349117485     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2007.717     Document Type: Conference Paper

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