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Ultra-Wideband Communication Systems: Technology and Applications

  2. 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...

    Authors: Relja Djapic, Geert Leus, Alle-Jan van der Veen and António Trindade
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2007 2006:037952
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  3. 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 ...

    Authors: Mustafa Badaroglu, Claude Desset, Julien Ryckaert, Vincent De Heyn, Geert Van der Plas, Piet Wambacq and Bart Van Poucke
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2007 2006:072430
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  4. 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...

    Authors: Tiziano Bianchi and Simone Morosi
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2006 2006:026054
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  5. 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...

    Authors: Zafer Sahinoglu and Ismail Guvenc
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2006 2006:056849
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  6. 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...

    Authors: Yongjing Zhang, Haitao Wu, Qian Zhang and Ping Zhang
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2006 2006:040380
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  7. 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...

    Authors: Sinan Gezici, Mung Chiang, H. Vincent Poor and Hisashi Kobayashi
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2006 2006:084249
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  8. 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...

    Authors: Yanxia Wang, Libo Yang and Lei Wei
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2006 2006:091329
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  9. 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...

    Authors: Pekka Pirinen
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2006 2006:019460
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