Threshold-based time-of-arrival estimators in UWB dense multipath channels

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1366-1378

  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

Localization; Multipath channel; Ranging; Time of arrival (TOA); Ultra wide bandwidth (UWB)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; HOUSES; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS; STRAIN ENERGY;

LOCALIZATION; MULTIPATH CHANNEL; RANGING; TIME OF-ARRIVAL (TOA); ULTRA-WIDE BANDWIDTH (UWB);

TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 50649093952     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2008.050551     Document Type: Article

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