| 3D | three-dimensional |
| AoA | angle-of-arrival |
| CRLB | Cramer–Rao lower bound |
| GDoP | geometric dilution of precision |
| IoT | Internet-of-things |
| LS | least squares |
| ML | maximum likelihood |
| MLE | maximum likelihood estimator |
| probability density function | |
| PLE | path loss exponent |
| SDP | semi-definite programming |
| SOCP | second-order convex programming |
| RMSE | root mean square error |
| ToA | time-of-arrival |
| TDoA | time-different-of-arrival |
| WLS | weighted least squares |
| WSN | wireless sensor network |