Accurate passive location estimation using TOA measurements

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2182-2192

  Shen, Junyang ^b   Molisch, Andreas F ^b   Salmi, Jussi ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

CRLB; location estimation; TDOA; TOA

Indexed keywords

CRAMER-RAO LOWER BOUND; CRLB; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; ESTIMATION ERRORS; HIGH-PRECISION LOCALIZATION; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; LOCATION ESTIMATION; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; PASSIVE LOCATION; TDOA; TIME-DIFFERENCE-OF-ARRIVAL; TIME-OF-ARRIVAL; TOA; TOA MEASUREMENT; TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVER; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES;

ALGORITHMS; CRAMER-RAO BOUNDS; TRANSMITTERS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 84862864307     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2012.040412.110697     Document Type: Article

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