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Distributed TDoA Estimation for Wireless Sensor Networks Based on Frequency-Hopping in Multipath Environment 1,2 1,2 2 1,2 Weile Zhang , Qinye Yin , Xue Feng , Wenjie Wang 1 MOE Key Lab for Intelligent Networks and Network Security, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, P.R.China 2 School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, P.R.China Email: wlzhang1984@, qyyin@, xuefeng.ee@, wjwang@ Abstract—A novel distributed TDoA (Time-Difference-of- is based on: 1) the difference in the times at which a single Arrival) estimation method for wireless sensor networks (WSN) signal from a single node arrives at three or more nodes; 2) the in multipath environment is proposed in this paper. For the difference in the times at which multiple signals from a single conventional narrow band system usually adopted in the wireless node arrive at another node [6]. The first case, which is more sensors, the frequency-hopping technique can be utilized to per- form the estimation of the wide band frequency-domain channel common in cellular networks, requires precisely synchronized response, by which the super-resolution TDoA estimation is receiver nodes. In the second case, more common and suit- conducted independently at each sensor to detect range difference able for WSNs, nodes must be equipped with extra hardware from the sensor to the two anchors. The proposed method only capable of sending two types of signals simultaneously,