Cramér - Rao bound analysis of positioning approaches in GNSS receivers

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3775-3786

  Closas, Pau ^a,b   Fernández Prades, Carles ^b   Fernández Rubio, Juan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC DE TELECOMUNICACIONS DE CATALUNYA CTTC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cram r Rao bound (CRB); Maximum likelihood estimation; Multipath channels; Satellite navigation systems

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; DIRECT POSITION; GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS; GNSS RECEIVERS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATOR; MULTI-ANTENNA RECEIVERS; MULTI-PATH MITIGATION; MULTIPATH CHANNELS; NAVIGATION SOLUTION; REALISTIC SCENARIO; ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERRORS; SATELLITE NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; STILL MISSING; SYNCHRONIZATION PARAMETERS; THEORETICAL BOUNDS; THEORETICAL PERFORMANCE; TRILATERATION;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; NAVIGATION; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SATELLITES; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 70349640570     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2009.2025083     Document Type: Article

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