Ultra-wideband range estimation: Theoretical limits and practical algorithms

Proceeedings of The 2008 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband, ICUWB 2008

Volumn 3, Issue , 2008, Pages 93-96

  Guvenc, Ismail ^a   Gezici, Sinan ^b   Sahinoglu, Zafer ^c  

^a DOCOMO USA LABS   (United States)

^b BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND NETWORKS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CONTROL THEORY; CRAMER-RAO BOUNDS; RANGE FINDERS; RANGE FINDING; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

INDEX TERMS; LOWER BOUNDS; PRACTICAL ALGORITHMS; RANGE ESTIMATIONS; TIME RESOLUTIONS; UWB SYSTEMS; WIDE BANDS; WIRELESS DEVICES;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 56849086093     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICUWB.2008.4653424     Document Type: Conference Paper

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