The problem of position estimation from Time Difference Of Arrival (TDOA) measurements occurs in a range of applications from wireless communication networks to electronic warfare positioning. Correlation analysis of the transmitted signal to two receivers gives rise to one hyperbolic function. With more than two receivers, we can compute more hyperbolic functions, which ideally intersect in on...

We study almost automorphic solutions of recurrence relations with values in a Banach space V for quasilinear almost automorphic difference systems. Its linear part is a constant bounded linear operator Λ defined on V satisfying an exponential dichotomy. We study the existence of almost automorphic solutions of the non-homogeneous linear difference equation and to quasilinear difference equatio...

Article history: Received 24 May 2010 Received in revised form 12 September 2010 Accepted 4 November 2010 Available online 27 November 2010

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