Robust mobile terminal tracking in NLOS environments based on data association

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 58, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 5872-5882

  Hammes, Ulrich ^a   Zoubir, Abdelhak M ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mobile terminal tracking; NLOS; probabilistic data association; robust tracking

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSOCIATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTS; LOS ENVIRONMENT; MOBILE TERMINAL; NLOS; NLOS ERROR; NON-LINE-OF-SIGHT ENVIRONMENTS; POSITION ESTIMATES; POSITIONING ACCURACY; PROBABILISTIC DATA ASSOCIATION; RANGE MEASUREMENTS; ROBUST TRACKING; SENSOR NOISE; SIMULATION RESULT; STATISTICAL KNOWLEDGE; TIME-OF-ARRIVAL MEASUREMENTS;

ALGORITHMS; COVARIANCE MATRIX; KALMAN FILTERS; MOBILE PHONES;

COMPUTER TERMINALS;

EID: 79953821903     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2010.2063425     Document Type: Article

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