Modeling the effect of human body on TOA based indoor human tracking

International Journal of Wireless Information Networks

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 306-317

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

^a WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

Author keywords

Body area network; Human tracking; Indoor localization; Indoor location system; Ranging error; TOA

Indexed keywords

BODY AREA NETWORK; HUMAN TRACKING; INDOOR LOCALIZATION; INDOOR LOCATION SYSTEM; RANGING ERRORS; TOA;

BANDWIDTH; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS);

DYNAMIC MODELS;

EID: 84890562154     PISSN: 10689605     EISSN: 15728129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10776-013-0227-3     Document Type: Article

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