On received-signal-strength based localization with unknown transmit power and path loss exponent

IEEE Wireless Communications Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 536-539

  Wang, Gang ^a   Chen, H ^b   Li, Youming ^a   Jin, Ming ^a  

^a NINGBO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Localization; path loss exponent (PLE) estimation; received signal strength (RSS); transmit power estimation; weighted least squares (WLS)

Indexed keywords

LOCALIZATION; PATH LOSS EXPONENT; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH; TRANSMIT POWER; WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARES;

RSS; SENSOR NODES;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 84869504926     PISSN: 21622337     EISSN: 21622345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/WCL.2012.072012.120428     Document Type: Article

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