Hybrid TOA/AOA geometrical positioning schemes for mobile location

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E92-B, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 396-402

  Chen, Chien Sheng ^a,b   Su, Szu Lin ^a   Huang, Yih Fang ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAINAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

Angle of arrival (AOA); Mobile location; Positioning schemes; Time of arrival (TOA)

Indexed keywords

DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL; ERRORS; GEOMETRY; LOCATION;

ANGLE OF ARRIVAL; CONVERGENCE PROBLEMS; HYBRID POSITIONING; MOBILE LOCATION; NON-LINE-OF-SIGHT ENVIRONMENTS; POSITIONING SCHEMES; RELATIVE POSITIONING; TIME OF ARRIVAL (TOA);

TIME OF ARRIVAL;

EID: 77952484758     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: 17451345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1587/transcom.E92.B.396     Document Type: Conference Paper

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