Time-of-arrival estimation of UWB signals in the presence of narrowband and wideband interference

2007 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband, ICUWB

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 71-76

  Dardari, Davide ^a,b   Giorgetti, Andrea ^a,b   Win, Moe Z ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Interference; Localization; Ranging; Time of arrival; Ultrawide bandwidth

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND NETWORKS; RADIO INTERFERENCE; RANGE FINDING; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CHALLENGING TASK; CLUTTERED ENVIRONMENTS; INTERFERENCE; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LOCALIZATION; MULTI-PATH; MULTIPATH ENVIRONMENTS; NARROW BANDS; NARROW-BAND INTERFERENCE; POSITIONING SYSTEMS; POSITIONING TECHNIQUES; RANGE MEASUREMENTS; RANGING; RANGING SYSTEMS; SATELLITE NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; SYSTEM PARAMETERS; THRESHOLD LEVELS; THRESHOLDING; TIME-OF-ARRIVAL; TIME-OF-ARRIVAL ESTIMATION; TOA ESTIMATION; ULTRA WIDE BANDS; ULTRAWIDE BANDWIDTH; UWB SIGNALING; WIDE-BAND INTERFERENCE;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 45349084227     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICUWB.2007.4380918     Document Type: Conference Paper

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