Maximum-likelihood direct position estimation in dense multipath

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2069-2079

  Bialer, Oded ^a   Raphaeli, Dan ^a   Weiss, Anthony J ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cramer Rao bound (CRLB); differential time of arrival (DTOA); location estimation; maximum likelihood; multipath; position estimation; time of arrival (TOA)

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRAMER-RAO BOUNDS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

DENSE-MULTIPATH CHANNELS; GAUSSIAN APPROXIMATIONS; LOCATION ESTIMATION; MULTIPATH; MULTIPATH CHANNEL MODELS; POSITION ESTIMATION; SIGNALTONOISE RATIO (SNR); TIME OF ARRIVAL;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 84879161190     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2012.2236895     Document Type: Article

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