Energy-based TOA estimation

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 838-847

  D'Amico, Antonio A ^a   Mengali, Umberto ^a   Taponecco, Lorenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Frame frequency estimation; Synchronization; Ultra wideband communications

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; IMPULSE NOISE; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; SYNCHRONIZATION;

FRAME FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; FREQUENCY-SELECTIVE PROPAGATION; ULTRA-WIDEBAND TECHNOLOGY;

CHANNEL ESTIMATION;

EID: 41149178514     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2008.060545     Document Type: Article

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