In this paper the problem of TOA estimation in multipath channels are discussed. Brief introductions of TOA estimation techniques that can be used to improve the performance in multipath channels are presented. Some simulation results based on channel measurement data in indoor environment is presented to demonstrate and compare the performance of different TOA estimation techniques.

This paper examines the performance of time of arrival (TOA) estimation techniques for an UWB system employing a non-coherent energy collection receiver. The performance of two different algorithms, namely, the threshold-crossing (TC) and the maximum selection (MAX) algorithms, are compared in terms of TOA estimation error. The effect of the TOA estimation error on position calculation is evalu...

Positioning estimation based on Time Of Arrival (TOA) estimation needs high accurate first arrival detector. Highresolution TOA estimators based on Minimum Variance (MV) and Normalized Minimum Variance (NMV) provide an accurate estimation of the first arrival even in high multipath environments at the expenses of a high computational cost. The aim of this paper is to reduce the computational bu...

PURPOSE The transobturator adjustable tape (TOA) allows adjustment of tension after surgical intervention, thus permitting correction of postoperative incontinence or obstruction. The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy and safety of TOA versus transobturator tape (TOT) for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence with intrinsic sphincter deficiency (ISD). MATERIALS AND METHODS ...

This study was designed to test the concurrent validity of the revised Task-Oriented Assessment (TOA) component of the Bay Area Functional Performance Evaluation (BaFPE) (Bloomer & Williams, 1979) with Part 1 of the American Association on Mental Deficiency Adaptive Behavior Scale (ABS) (Nihira, Foster, Shellhaas, & Leland, 1969, 1974) and to develop a means of interpretation for the numeric sc...

The time-of-arrival (TOA), time-difference-ofarrival (TDOA) and signal strength (SS) methods have been widely accepted as three principal techniques for positioning a mobile station (MS) in a wireless communication system. To the best of our knowledge, previous studies tend to treat these methods separately, and less analytical results on their relationship have been reported. In this paper, th...

WLAN Positioning has been presented by many approaches in literatures using the characteristics of Received Signal Strength (RSS), Time of Arrival (TOA) or Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA), Angle of Arrival (AOA) and cell ID. Among these, RSS approach is the simplest method to implement because there is no need of modification on both access points and client devices whereas its accuracy is te...

In time of arrival (TOA) estimation of received ultra-wideband (UWB) pulses, traditional maximum likelihood (ML) and generalized likelihood estimators become impractical because they require sampling at the Nyquist rate. Sub-Nyquist ML-based TOA estimation currently assumes a priori knowledge of the UWB channels in the form of the average power delay profile (APDP). In this paper, instead of as...

In this paper, we propose a time-of-arrival (TOA) estimation scheme using impulse-radio ultra-wideband (IR-UWB). This scheme is featured by a low sampling rate and is robust against clock drift. Low-rate stroboscopic sampling, which can achieve an equivalent sampling rate as high as the Nyquist sampling rate, is adopted to achieve a high resolution TOA estimate by IR-UWB. Since a long preamble ...