Modeling the effect of human body on TOA ranging for indoor human tracking with wrist mounted sensor

International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, WPMC

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

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

^a WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

Author keywords

Body area network; Creeping wave; Human tracking; Indoor localization; Ranging error; TOA

Indexed keywords

BODY AREA NETWORK; CREEPING WAVES; HUMAN TRACKING; INDOOR LOCALIZATION; RANGING ERRORS; TOA;

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS);

SENSORS;

EID: 84887503119     PISSN: 13476890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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