Wireless position location: fundamentals, implementation strategies, and sources of error

This paper presents an overview of basic RF position location strategies which are feasible for ubiquitous deployment by cellular-type wireless system providers. Limitations on the practical ability to locate mobile RF transmitters and the effects of real world channel degradation on direction-finding and time difference of arrival systems are also discussed.

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