Ranging with ultrawide bandwidth signals in multipath environments

D Dardari, A Conti, U Ferner, A Giorgetti… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Over the coming decades, high-definition situationally-aware networks have the potential to
create revolutionary applications in the social, scientific, commercial, and military sectors …

Investigation of high-accuracy indoor 3-D positioning using UWB technology

MR Mahfouz, C Zhang, BC Merkl… - IEEE Transactions …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
There are many challenges in building an ultra-wideband (UWB) indoor local positioning
system for high-accuracy applications. These challenges include reduced accuracy due to …

Coexistence between UWB and narrow-band wireless communication systems

M Chiani, A Giorgetti - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultra-wide-band (UWB) signals are suitable for underlay communications, over a frequency
band where, possibly, other systems are active. Such coexistence of UWB and other …

Time-of-arrival estimation based on information theoretic criteria

A Giorgetti, M Chiani - IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The possibility to accurately localize tags by using wireless techniques is of great
importance for several emerging applications in the Internet of Things. Precise ranging can …

Joint time-of-arrival estimation for coherent UWB ranging in multipath environment with multi-user interference

S Wang, G Mao, JA Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Signal …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Time-of-Arrival (ToA) estimation becomes extremely challenging for ultra-wideband ranging
systems in dense multipath environment with multiuser interference. In this paper, we …

The cicada attack: degradation and denial of service in ir ranging

M Poturalski, M Flury, P Papadimitratos… - … Conference on Ultra …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate that an interferer with malicious intentions can significantly degrade the
performance of impulseradio (IR) ranging. The cicada attack we have developed can …

On secure and precise IR-UWB ranging

M Poturalski, M Flury, P Papadimitratos… - IEEE transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To provide high ranging precision in multipath environments, a ranging protocol should find
the first arriving path, rather than the strongest path. We demonstrate a new attack vector that …

Characteristic modeling of TOA ranging error in rotating anchor-based relative positioning

P Wang, J He, L Xu, Y Wu, C Xu… - IEEE Sensors …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we describe a rotating anchor-based positioning method using time of arrival
(TOA) measurements to obtain the relative positional relationship between two locators …

Low-Complexity Wideband Interference Mitigation for UWB ToA Estimation

S Hechenberger, S Tertinek, H Arthaber - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Reliable time of arrival (ToA) estimation in dense multipath (DM) environments is a difficult
task, especially when strong interference is present. The increasing number of multiple …

Coherent UWB ranging in the presence of multiuser interference

V Kristem, AF Molisch, S Niranjayan… - IEEE transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Roundtrip time-of-arrival (ToA) measurements employing ultra-wideband (UWB) signals can
provide high-precision ranging information. However, the accuracy is degraded by multiuser …