A tracking system for wireless embedded nodes using time-of-flight ranging

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2373-2385

  Mazomenos, Evangelos B ^a   Reeve, Jeff S ^a   White, Neil M ^a   Brown, Andrew D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

real time and embedded systems; target tracking; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SCENARIO; KINEMATIC VARIABLES; MULTIPLE-MODEL APPROACHES; RANGE MEASUREMENTS; REAL-TIME AND EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; REAL-TIME TARGET TRACKING; SYSTEM'S PERFORMANCE; TIME-OF-FLIGHT METHOD;

HARDWARE; SENSOR NODES; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

TARGET TRACKING;

EID: 84887567399     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2012.209     Document Type: Article

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