Improved lower bounds on time-of-arrival estimation error in realistic UWB channels

ICUWB2006: 2006 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 531-538

  Dardari, Davide ^a   Chong, Chia Chin ^b   Win, Moe Z ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b DOCOMO USA LABS   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ranging; Time of arrival estimation; UWB; Ziv Zakai lower bound

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BROADBAND NETWORKS; CHANNEL ESTIMATION; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION;

TIME-OF-ARRIVAL ESTIMATION; ULTRAWIDE BANDWIDTH RANGING SYSTEMS; ZIV-ZAKAI LOWER BOUND;

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EID: 41649121726     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICU.2006.281605     Document Type: Conference Paper

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