Time-of-arrivai estimation for IR-UWB systems in dense multipath environment

IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Xu, Yizhi ^a   Au, Edward K S ^b   Wong, Albert K ^c   Wang, Qin ^d  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^c HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; CROSS-CORRELATION PROPERTY; DENSE MULTIPATH ENVIRONMENT; HIGH-PRECISION; IMPULSE RADIO; LOW SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; MEAN ABSOLUTE ERROR; OPTIMAL THRESHOLD; RAYLEIGH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME OF ARRIVAL ESTIMATION; UWB SYSTEM;

BROADBAND NETWORKS; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; RADIO; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

RADIO COMMUNICATION;

EID: 69949176092     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PIMRC.2008.4699802     Document Type: Conference Paper

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