Efficient location estimators in NLOS environments

IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Yu, Kegen ^a   Guo, Y Jay ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Constrained optimization; Joint location and bias estimation; NLOS propagation; Radio positioning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; STATISTICS;

JOINT LOCATION AND BIAS ESTIMATION; NLOS PROPAGATION; RADIO POSITIONING;

CHANNEL ESTIMATION;

EID: 44349152352     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PIMRC.2007.4394428     Document Type: Conference Paper

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