3D-accuracy improvements for TDoA based wireless local positioning systems

2008 IEEE Globecom Workshops, GLOBECOM 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Eickhoff, Ralf ^a   Ellinger, Frank ^a   Mosshammer, Ralf ^b   Weigel, Robert ^b   Ziroff, Andreas ^c   Huemer, Mario ^d  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHASE MATCHING; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ACCURACY IMPROVEMENTS; EUROPEAN PROJECTS; HARDWARE COMPONENTS; INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS; ISM BANDS; LOCAL POSITIONING SYSTEMS; LOCALIZATION ACCURACIES; QUALITY-OF-SERVICE; TRANSMIT POWER;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 62949114638     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOMW.2008.ECP.33     Document Type: Conference Paper

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