Impact of antennas on the anchor-less indoor localization of a static IR-UWB pair

IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 858-864

  La Tosa, V ^a   Denis, B ^a   Bories, S ^a   Uguen, B ^b  

^a CEA LETI   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Anchor less localization; Context awareness; Impulse radio; Indoor environments characterization; Ultra wide band antennas; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT- AWARENESS; IMPULSE RADIO; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; ULTRA WIDE-BAND ANTENNAS; WIRELESS SENSOR;

ALGORITHMS; ANTENNAS; BROADBAND NETWORKS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); IMPULSE NOISE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; RADIO; SENSOR NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TREES (MATHEMATICS); WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 78751505952     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PIMRC.2010.5672035     Document Type: Conference Paper

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