Robust tracking and geolocation for wireless networks in NLOS environments

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 889-901

  Hammes, Ulrich ^a   Wolsztynski, Eric ^a   Zoubir, Abdelhak M ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Extended Kalman filter; Kernel density estimation; Non Gaussian noise; Non line of sight (NLOS) mitigation; Robust geolocation; Robust tracking; Semi parametric estimation

Indexed keywords

GEOLOCATIONS; KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATION; NON-GAUSSIAN NOISE; NON-LINE-OF-SIGHT MITIGATIONS; ROBUST TRACKING; SEMI PARAMETRIC ESTIMATION;

ESTIMATION; EXTENDED KALMAN FILTERS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 78650092466     PISSN: 19324553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTSP.2009.2028383     Document Type: Article

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