Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 942657, 5 pages
doi:10.1155/2010/942657
Research Article

Hybrid TOA/AOA Approximate Maximum Likelihood Mobile Localization

Mohamed Zhaounia,1 Mohamed Adnan Landolsi,2 and Ridha Bouallegue1

1Unité de recherche 6'Tel, Ecole Superieure des Communications, El Ghazala, Ariana 2083, Tunisia
2EE Department, King Fahd University, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia

Received 9 June 2009; Accepted 3 November 2009

Academic Editor: Montse Najar

Copyright © 2010 Mohamed Zhaounia et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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