A novel joint RFID and radar sensor network for passive localization: Design and performance bounds

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 80-95

  Decarli, Nicolo ^a   Guidi, Francesco ^a,b   Dardari, Davide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b ENSTA PARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

clutter; interference; localization; position error bound; radar; RFID; UWB

Indexed keywords

INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT); LOCALIZATION; LOCALIZATION ACCURACY; LOCALIZATION PERFORMANCE; LOW ENERGY CONSUMPTION; NETWORK CONFIGURATION; POSITION ERRORS; UWB;

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPLEX NETWORKS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; RADAR; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); SENSOR NETWORKS; WAVE INTERFERENCE;

SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

EID: 84893356031     PISSN: 19324553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTSP.2013.2287174     Document Type: Article

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