NLOS channel identification and mitigation in ultra wideband ToA-based wireless sensor networks

Proceedings - 6th Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication, WPNC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 59-66

  Alsindi, Nayef ^a   Duan, Chunjie ^b   Zhang, Jinyun ^b   Tsuboi, Tsutomu ^c  

^a MATHWORKS INC   (United States)

^b MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c RENESAS TECHNOLOGY CORP   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cooperative localization; NLOS; ToA based ranging; Ultra wideband; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CONDITIONS; CHANNEL IDENTIFICATION; CHANNEL MEASUREMENTS; COOPERATIVE LOCALIZATION; DIRECT PATHS; DISTANCE ESTIMATION; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; LOCALIZATION PERFORMANCE; LOCALIZATION SCHEMES; LOW COMPLEXITY; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; NLOS; OFFICE ENVIRONMENTS; POSITIVE BIAS; RANGING ACCURACY; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH; ROBUST ALGORITHM; ROBUST PERFORMANCE; SIMULATION RESULT; TIME OF ARRIVAL; TOA-BASED RANGING; WEIGHT ASSIGNMENT; WIRELESS CHANNEL CONDITION;

CHANNEL CAPACITY; CHANNEL ESTIMATION; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DYNAMIC POSITIONING; ESTIMATION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; MOTION CONTROL; NAVIGATION; PERCOLATION (SOLID STATE); SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSOR NODES; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB); WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 70349090040     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WPNC.2009.4907804     Document Type: Conference Paper

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