Joint TOA and AOA estimation for UWB localization applications

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2207-2217

  Taponecco, L ^a   D'Amico, A A ^a   Mengali, U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

AOA estimation; TOA estimation; UWB localization applications

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR ERRORS; AOA ESTIMATION; FILTER OUTPUT; NYQUIST RATE; OPERATING CONDITION; RANGING ERRORS; SAMPLING RATES; SIGNAL SAMPLES; TOA ESTIMATION; TOA/AOA; TRANSMITTED PULSE; UWB LOCALIZATION APPLICATIONS;

ANTENNAS; BANDWIDTH; ERRORS; LOW PASS FILTERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 79960561083     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2011.042211.100966     Document Type: Article

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