Performance of ultralow-power IR-UWB correlator receivers for highly accurate wearable human locomotion tracking and gait analysis systems

GLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Shaban, Heba ^a   El Nasr, M Abou ^b   Buehrer, R M ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Egypt Mansoura University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Body Area Networks (BANs); Error analysis; Gait analysis; Improved Ziv Zakai lower bound (ZZLB); Low power receivers; Multipath channel; Pulse Position Modulation (PPM); Ultra wideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

BODY AREA NETWORK; BODY AREA NETWORKS (BANS); LOW POWER RECEIVER; LOWER BOUNDS; MULTIPATH CHANNELS; PULSE-POSITION MODULATION (PPM);

ERROR ANALYSIS; FADING (RADIO); GAIT ANALYSIS; MULTIPATH FADING; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; PULSE MODULATION; PULSE POSITION MODULATION;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 77951570364     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2009.5426230     Document Type: Conference Paper

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