Investigation of radio channel uncertainty in distance estimation in wireless sensor networks

Telecommunication Systems

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1549-1558

  Moravek, Patrik ^a   Komosny, Dan ^a   Simek, Milan ^a   Jelinek, Mojmir ^a   Girbau, David ^b   Lazaro, Antonio ^b  

^a BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

Distance estimation; Localization; Measurement; RSS; Uncertainty; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

DISTANCE DETERMINATION; DISTANCE ESTIMATION; HARDWARE INDEPENDENT; LOCALIZATION; OUTDOOR MEASUREMENTS; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH; SIGNAL PROPAGATION MODEL; UNCERTAINTY;

ESTIMATION; HARDWARE; MEASUREMENTS; RSS; SENSOR NODES; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84879796792     PISSN: 10184864     EISSN: 15729451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11235-011-9522-4     Document Type: Article

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