Mobile location with NLOS identification and mitigation based on modified Kalman filtering

Sensors

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1641-1656

  Ke, Wei ^a,b   Wu, Lenan ^a  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Extended Kalman filter (EKF); Identification; LOS; Mobile location; NLOS

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; TIME; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SOFTWARE DESIGN; TIME FACTORS; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 79952075015     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s110201641     Document Type: Article

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