Low-power IR-UWB coherent TOA estimators with suboptimal sinusoidal templates for UWB-based body area networks

Wireless Networks

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1641-1648

  Abou El Nasr, Mohamad ^a   Shaban, Heba A ^a   Buehrer, R Michael ^b,c  

^a Egypt Mansoura University   (Egypt)

^b State University   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body area network (BAN); Time of arrival (TOA); Ultra wideband (UWB); Wireless

Indexed keywords

BODY AREA NETWORK; BODY AREA NETWORKS; CHANNEL MODEL; IMPULSE RADIO ULTRA-WIDEBAND; LOW POWER; LOWER BOUNDS; ON-BODY; PERFORMANCE LOSS; SINUSOIDAL TEMPLATES; TEMPLATE-BASED; TIME-OF-ARRIVAL;

ANTENNAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); OPTIMIZATION; RADIO;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 80053535620     PISSN: 10220038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11276-011-0369-0     Document Type: Article

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