A joint TOA/AOA constrained minimization method for locating wireless devices in non-line-of-sight environment

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 468-472

  Al Jazzar, Saleh ^a   Ghogho, Mounir ^b   McLernon, Desmond ^b  

^a HASHEMITE UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dominant scatterer; Joint time of arrival and angle of arrival; Non line of sight; Wireless location

Indexed keywords

LOCATION;

BASE-STATION; CONSTRAINED MINIMIZATIONS; DOMINANT SCATTERER; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; JOINT TIME OF ARRIVAL AND ANGLE OF ARRIVAL; LOCATION ALGORITHMS; MOBILE STATIONS; NEW APPROACHES; NON - LINEAR CONSTRAINTS; NON-LINE-OF-SIGHT; NON-LINE-OF-SIGHT ENVIRONMENTS; NON-LINE-OF-SIGHT PROPAGATION; NON-LINEAR OPTIMIZATIONS; ON TIME; TOA/AOA; WIRELESS DEVICES; WIRELESS LOCATION; WIRELESS LOCATION SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 59649120509     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2008.923670     Document Type: Article

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