Toward accurate human tracking: Modeling time-of-arrival for wireless wearable sensors in multipath environment

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3996-4006

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

^b WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

body area network; human tracking; indoor localization; indoor location system; ranging error; TOA; wearable sensor.

Indexed keywords

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

EID: 84908066466     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2014.2356857     Document Type: Article

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