Ultra-Wideband Communication Systems: Technology and Applications
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Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2007 2006:016497
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Blind Synchronization in Asynchronous UWB Networks Based on the Transmit-Reference Scheme
Ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless communication systems are based on the transmission of extremely narrow pulses, with a duration inferior to a nanosecond. The application of transmit reference (TR) to UWB systems...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2007 2006:037952 -
Analog-Digital Partitioning for Low-Power UWB Impulse Radios under CMOS Scaling
Ultra-wideband (UWB) impulse radios show strong advantages for the implementation of low-power transceivers. In this paper, we analyze the impact of CMOS technology scaling on power consumption of UWB impulse ...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2007 2006:072430 -
Frequency Domain Detectors in Different Short-Range Ultra-Wideband Communication Scenarios
We study the performance of an innovative communication scheme for ultra-wideband systems which are based on impulse radio in two different short-range communication scenarios: the proposed system relies on bo...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2006 2006:026054 -
Multiuser Interference Mitigation in Noncoherent UWB Ranging via Nonlinear Filtering
Ranging with energy detectors enables low-cost implementation. However, any interference can be quite detrimental to range accuracy. We develop a method that performs nonlinear filtering on the received signal...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2006 2006:056849 -
Interference Mitigation for Coexistence of Heterogeneous Ultra-Wideband Systems
Two ultra-wideband (UWB) specifications, that is, direct-sequence (DS) UWB and multiband-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MB-OFDM) UWB, have been proposed as the candidates of the IEEE 802.15.3a, co...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2006 2006:040380 -
Optimal and Suboptimal Finger Selection Algorithms for MMSE Rake Receivers in Impulse Radio Ultra-Wideband Systems
The problem of choosing the optimal multipath components to be employed at a minimum mean square error (MMSE) selective Rake receiver is considered for an impulse radio ultra-wideband system. First, the optima...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2006 2006:084249 -
High-Speed Turbo-TCM-Coded Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing Ultra-Wideband Systems
One of the UWB proposals in the IEEE P802.15 WPAN project is to use a multiband orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) system and punctured convolutional codes for UWB channels supporting a data rat...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2006 2006:091329 -
Outage Analysis of Ultra-Wideband System in Lognormal Multipath Fading and Square-Shaped Cellular Configurations
Generic ultra-wideband (UWB) spread-spectrum system performance is evaluated in centralized and distributed spatial topologies comprising square-shaped indoor cells. Statistical distributions for link distance...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2006 2006:019460