A comprehensive evaluation of joint range and angle estimation in indoor ultrawideband location systems

Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

Volumn 2008, Issue , 2008, Pages

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; BEARINGS (STRUCTURAL); BROADBAND NETWORKS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYZERS; RANGE FINDING; STEEL SHEET; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS); WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ANGLE ESTIMATIONS; ANGULAR RESOLUTIONS; BEARING CAPABILITIES; BEARING SYSTEMS; CENTER FREQUENCIES; CHANNEL SOUNDERS; COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATIONS; FIRST ARRIVALS; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; LINE OF SIGHTS; LOCATION SYSTEMS; MULTI PATHS; NON LINE OF SIGHTS; PHYSICAL LIMITS; RANGE ERRORS; RANGING SYSTEMS; SPATIAL TEMPORALS; TIME RESOLUTIONS; TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVERS; UWB SYSTEMS; VECTOR NETWORK ANALYZERS; VIRTUAL ANTENNA ARRAYS; WALL MATERIALS;

TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 59849112566     PISSN: 16871472     EISSN: 16871499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2008/248509     Document Type: Article

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