Cramer-Rao bounds for hybrid TOA/DOA-based location estimation in sensor networks

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 655-658

  Fu, Yinfei ^a   Tian, Zhi ^a  

^a Michigan Technological University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cramer Rao Bound (CRB); Data fusion; DOA; Positioning; TOA; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

DOA; LOCALIZATION ACCURACY; LOCATION ESTIMATION; NETWORK TOPOLOGY; OPTIMAL MEASUREMENTS; POSITION ESTIMATES; POSITIONING; POSITIONING ACCURACY; SENSOR SELECTION; SIGNAL SOURCE; SOURCE LOCATION; TOA;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CRAMER-RAO BOUNDS; DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; INFORMATION FUSION; RADIO DIRECTION FINDING SYSTEMS; ROUTING PROTOCOLS; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 67149109951     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2009.2021323     Document Type: Article

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