Range estimation in UWB realistic environments

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn 12, Issue , 2006, Pages 5692-5697

  Falsi, Chiara ^a   Dardari, Davide ^b   Mucchi, Lorenzo ^a   Win, Moe Z ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; OFFICE BUILDINGS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

TIME OF ARRIVAL (TOA); ULTRA-WIDE BANDWIDTH (UWB);

CHANNEL ESTIMATION;

EID: 42549119101     PISSN: 05361486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2006.255571     Document Type: Conference Paper

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