Network experimentation for cooperative localization

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 467-475

  Conti, Andrea ^a   Guerra, Matteo ^a   Dardari, Davide ^b   Decarli, Nicolo ^b   Win, Moe Z ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

channel characterization; cooperative localization; Network experimentation; ultrawide bandwidth

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CHARACTERIZATION; COOPERATIVE LOCALIZATION; COOPERATIVE WIRELESS NETWORKS; ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; LOCATION-AWARE; MEASUREMENT CAMPAIGN; NETWORK LOCALIZATION; PERFORMANCE BASED; ULTRAWIDE BANDWIDTH;

BANDWIDTH;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84856285064     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2012.120227     Document Type: Article

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