A novel threshold-based coherent TOA estimation for IR-UWB systems

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 4675-4681

  Xu, Allen Yi Zhi ^a   Au, Edward K S ^a,b   Wong, Albert Kai Sun ^a   Wang, Qin ^c  

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

^b HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO LTD   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

Author keywords

Impulse radio; Ranging; Time of arrival (TOA); Ultrawideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; CROSS-CORRELATION PROPERTY; DENSE MULTIPATH ENVIRONMENT; HIGH-PRECISION; IMPULSE RADIO; LEADING EDGE; MEAN ABSOLUTE ERROR; OPTIMAL THRESHOLD; RANGING; RECEIVED SIGNALS; THRESHOLD-CROSSING; TIME OF ARRIVAL (TOA); TIME OF ARRIVAL ESTIMATION; TOA ESTIMATION; ULTRAWIDEBAND SYSTEMS; UWB SYSTEM;

BROADBAND NETWORKS; ESTIMATION; IMPULSE NOISE; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

RADIO;

EID: 70350223430     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2009.2020990     Document Type: Article

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