A testbed for evaluation of the effects of multipath on performance of TOA-based indoor geolocation

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2237-2247

  He, Jie ^a   Pahlavan, Kaveh ^b   Li, Shen ^b   Wang, Qin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

^b WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Indoor geolocation; performance evaluation; testbed; time of arrival (TOA)

Indexed keywords

INDOOR GEOLOCATION; INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENTS; LABORATORY ENVIRONMENT; LOCALIZATION ALGORITHM; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; REAL TIME PERFORMANCE; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; TIME OF ARRIVAL;

OFFICE BUILDINGS; RADIO WAVES;

TESTBEDS;

EID: 84880570780     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2013.2255976     Document Type: Article

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