Adaptive leading-edge detection in UWB indoor localization

2010 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium, RWW 2010 - Paper Digest

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 268-271

  Kuhn, Michael J ^a   Turnmire, Jonathan ^a   Mahfouz, Mohamed R ^a   Fathy, Aly E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive leading edge detection; Digital signal processing (DSP); Indoor positioning; UWB localization

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE LEADING-EDGE DETECTION; DENSE MULTIPATH; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; INDOOR LOCALIZATION; INDOOR POSITIONING; LEADING EDGE; LOCALIZATION SYSTEM; LOW SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; NONLINE OF SIGHT; RANGING ACCURACY; ROBUST SENSING; SIMULATION RESULT; SURGICAL NAVIGATION; UWB LOCALIZATION; UWB SIGNALS;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSORS; EDGE DETECTION; MATCHED FILTERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 77952417333     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RWS.2010.5434259     Document Type: Conference Paper

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