Recent trends and advances in UWB positioning

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Wireless Sensing, Local Positioning and RFID, Proceedings, IMWS 2009 - Croatia

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Mahfouz, Mohamed R ^a   Fathy, Aiy E ^a   Kuhn, Michael J ^a   Wang, Yahzou ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Indoor positioning; Real time location systems; Ultra wideband; UWB positioning

Indexed keywords

BODY AREA NETWORK; BUILDING BLOCKES; CURRENT TRENDS; FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; INDOOR APPLICATIONS; INDOOR POSITIONING; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT; LOCALIZATION ERRORS; LOW DATA RATES; MULTI-PURPOSE; REAL-TIME LOCATION; REAL-TIME LOCATION SYSTEMS; RECENT TRENDS; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; SURGICAL NAVIGATION; ULTRAWIDEBAND APPLICATIONS;

CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; MICROWAVES; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 73649116012     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IMWS2.2009.5307895     Document Type: Conference Paper

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