Modeling indoor TOA ranging error for body mounted sensors

IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 682-686

  He, Jie ^a,b   Geng, Yishuang ^a   Pahlavan, Kaveh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

^b WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Body area network; human tracking; indoor localization; indoor location system; ranging error; TOA

Indexed keywords

BODY AREA NETWORK; HUMAN TRACKING; INDOOR LOCALIZATION; INDOOR LOCATION SYSTEM; RANGING ERRORS; TOA;

BANDWIDTH; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); OFFICE BUILDINGS;

MULTIPATH PROPAGATION;

EID: 84871953616     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PIMRC.2012.6362871     Document Type: Conference Paper

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