A comprehensive evaluation of joint range and angle estimation in ultra-wideband location systems for indoors

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 4219-4225

  Gentile, Camillo ^a   Braga, A Judson ^a   Kik, Alfred ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Frequency invariant beamforming; Spatial temporal channel modeling; Uniform circular array

Indexed keywords

BEARINGS (STRUCTURAL); CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; STEEL SHEET; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

FREQUENCY-INVARIANT BEAMFORMING; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; NON-LINE-OF-SIGHT; SPATIAL-TEMPORAL CHANNEL MODELING; UNIFORM CIRCULAR ARRAY;

BROADBAND NETWORKS;

EID: 51249118438     PISSN: 05361486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2008.792     Document Type: Conference Paper

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