Performance of UWB and its suitability for wireless sensors

Author

Olonbayar, S. ; Kraemer, R.

Author_Institution

IHP, Frankfurt an der Oder

fYear

2008

fDate

27-27 March 2008

Firstpage

113

Lastpage

119

Abstract

Ultra-wideband (UWB) has become one of the key technologies in wireless communication industries. In this paper we discuss and evaluate the performance of UWB under different channel conditions when it is applied for wireless sensors. The simulation was carried out for various detection and modulation schemes. Simulation results confirm that UWB with coherent detection outperforms the noncoherent detection the difference being 10dB in SNR to achieve the same performance. Coded UWB improves the performance by another 2dB. Low rate UWB performs better than the high rate one.

Keywords

channel coding; modulation coding; signal detection; ultra wideband communication; wireless sensor networks; coded ultra-wideband; coherent detection; modulation scheme; wireless channel condition; wireless communication industry; wireless sensor application; Bandwidth; FCC; Frequency; Navigation; Robustness; Signal to noise ratio; Ultra wideband communication; Ultra wideband technology; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; UWB pulse generation; channel model; coherent and noncoherent detection;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Positioning, Navigation and Communication, 2008. WPNC 2008. 5th Workshop on

Conference_Location

Hannover

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1798-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1799-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WPNC.2008.4510364

Filename

4510364