Wireless location estimation with the assistance of virtual base stations

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 93-106

  Chen, Chien Huan ^a   Feng, Kai Ten ^a   Chen, Chao Lin ^b   Tseng, Po Hsuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TrendChip Technologies Corporation   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Geometric dilution of precision (GDOP); Nonline of sight (NLOS) errors; Time of arrival (TOA); Two step least square (LS) method; Wireless location estimation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BASE STATIONS; CURVE FITTING; ERRORS; ESTIMATION; POSITION CONTROL;

GEOMETRIC DILUTION OF PRECISION (GDOP); NONLINE-OF-SIGHT (NLOS) ERRORS; TIME OF ARRIVAL (TOA); TWO-STEP LEAST SQUARE (LS) METHOD; WIRELESS LOCATION ESTIMATION;

LOCATION;

EID: 59649128021     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2008.924984     Document Type: Article

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