An ultra-wideband spatial filter for a tunnel environment

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 491-495

  Jones, Natalie ^a   Hum, Sean V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Radio wave propagation in a tunnel; spatial filters; time of arrival estimation; ultra wideband

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EQUATIONS; HIGH SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; OVERMODED; RANGING ACCURACY; RAY-TRACING MODEL; SPARSE ARRAYS; SPATIAL FILTERS; TIME OF ARRIVAL ESTIMATION; TIME-OF-ARRIVAL; TUNNEL ENVIRONMENTS;

FADING (RADIO); RADIO WAVES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 84870773714     PISSN: 21626588     EISSN: 21626596     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340498     Document Type: Conference Paper

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