LOS/NLOS detection for UWB signals: A comparative study using experimental data

ISWPC 2010 - IEEE 5th International Symposium on Wireless Pervasive Computing 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 169-173

  Decarli, Nicolò ^a   Dardari, Davide ^a   Gezici, Sinan ^b   D'Amico, Antonio Alberto ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL STATE; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; IDENTIFICATION APPROACH; NLOS CONDITIONS; REALISTIC ENVIRONMENTS; UWB SIGNALS;

SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA);

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 77954798007     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISWPC.2010.5483704     Document Type: Conference Paper

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