Impulse radio ultra-wideband ranging based on maximum likelihood estimation

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 5852-5861

  Zhan, Hai ^a,b   Ayadi, Jaouhar ^a   Farserotu, John ^a   Le Boudec, Jean Yves ^b  

^a CSEM   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

IR; Maximum likelihood; Pseudo quadratic maximum likelihood; Ranging; UWB

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVE WHITE GAUSSIAN NOISE; AMPLITUDE COEFFICIENTS; CHANNEL DELAY; CHANNEL MODEL; DE-NOISING; ESTIMATION PROCEDURES; GRADIENT DESCENT; HIGH RESOLUTION; IEEE 802.15.4A; IMPULSE RADIO ULTRA-WIDEBAND; IMPULSE RADIOS; IR; ML ESTIMATION; NONLINEAR PROBLEMS; NUMERICAL EVALUATIONS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; REDUCED COMPLEXITY; ULTRA WIDEBAND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WEAK LINES;

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ESTIMATION; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); IMPULSE NOISE; RADIO; SECURITY OF DATA; SIGNAL NOISE MEASUREMENT; TURBO CODES; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB); WHITE NOISE; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 73049085562     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2009.12.080748     Document Type: Article

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