Frequency domain joint TOA and DOA estimation in IR-UWB

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3174-3184

  Navarro, Monica ^a   Najar, Montse ^b,c  

^a CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC DE TELECOMUNICACIONS DE CATALUNYA CTTC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c CTTC ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

DOA; IR UWB; location; ranging; synchronization; TOA

Indexed keywords

ARRAY ELEMENTS; CLOSED FORM; CRAMER RAO LOWER BOUND; DOA; DOA ESTIMATION; ENERGY ESTIMATION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN APPROACHES; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; FREQUENCY-DOMAIN SIGNAL; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION ESTIMATION; IR-UWB; JOINT ESTIMATION; LINEAR ESTIMATORS; MINIMUM DISTANCE; REDUCED COMPLEXITY; REFERENCE NODES; SYMBOL TIMING; TIME HOPPING SEQUENCES; TIME OF ARRIVAL; TIME SYNCHRONIZATION; TIMING ACQUISITION; TOA; TWO-STEP APPROACH;

ALGORITHMS; CRAMER-RAO BOUNDS; DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL; ESTIMATION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION;

EID: 80855130885     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2011.072511.090933     Document Type: Article

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