TDoA for passive localization: Underwater versus terrestrial environment

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2100-2108

  Liang, Qilian ^a   Zhang, Baoju ^b   Zhao, Chenglin ^c   Pi, Yiming ^d  

^a University of Texas at Arlington   (United States)

^b TIANJIN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

channel fading; Passive localization; time difference of arrival (TDoA); underwater

Indexed keywords

CORRELATED CHANNELS; PASSIVE LOCALIZATION; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERRORS; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS; TIME DIFFERENCE OF ARRIVAL; UNDERWATER; UNDERWATER CHANNELS; UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENTS;

ALGORITHMS; FADING CHANNELS; SCATTERING; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

PASSIVE NETWORKS;

EID: 84883392766     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2012.310     Document Type: Article

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