Maximum a posteriori approach to time-of-arrival-based localization in non-line-of-sight environment

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1517-1523

  Lui, Kenneth W K ^a   So, H C ^a   Ma, W K ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Mobile positioning; Nonline of slight (NLOS); Time of arrival (TOA)

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; GEOMETRIC CONSTRAINT; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI PROBABILITIES; MOBILE POSITIONING; MOBILE STATION; NON-LINE-OF-SIGHT ENVIRONMENTS; NONLINE OF SIGHT; POSITION ESTIMATION; STANDARD MAP; TIME OF ARRIVAL; TIME-OF-ARRIVAL MEASUREMENTS; TOA MEASUREMENT;

ERROR DETECTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 77949672536     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2009.2039762     Document Type: Article

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