Device-free person detection and ranging in UWB networks

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 43-54

  Kilic, Yakup ^a   Wymeersch, Henk ^b   Meijerink, Arjan ^a   Bentum, Mark J ^a   Scanlon, William G ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Device free localization; indoor positioning; signal processing; UWB

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND SIGNALS; DETECTION PROBABILITIES; DEVICE-FREE LOCALIZATIONS; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; INDOOR POSITIONING; LOW-FREQUENCY VARIATIONS; ULTRAWIDE BANDWIDTH; UWB;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BROADBAND NETWORKS;

EID: 84893393649     PISSN: 19324553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTSP.2013.2281780     Document Type: Article

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