Improving range accuracy of ieee 802.15.4a radios in the presence of clock frequency offsets

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 244-246

  Sahinoglu, Zafer ^a  

^a MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

clock frequency offset; IEEE 802.15.4a; Two way time of arrival (TW ToA); ultra wideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

CLOCK FREQUENCY OFFSET; IEEE 802.15.4A; MANAGEMENT SCHEME; RANGE ESTIMATION ERRORS; RANGING ERRORS; TIME-OF-ARRIVAL; TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVER;

CLOCKS; ERRORS; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; SIGNAL ENCODING;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 79951681893     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2011.122010.102034     Document Type: Article

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