Pulse Position Amplitude Modulation for Time-Hopping Multiple-Access UWB Communications

Author

Zhang, Hao ; Li, Wei ; Gulliver, T. Aaron

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Victoria, BC, Canada

Volume

53

Issue

8

fYear

2005

Firstpage

1269

Lastpage

1273

Abstract

In this letter, we propose a new modulation scheme called pulse position amplitude modulation (PPAM) for ultra-wideband (UWB) communication systems. PPAM combines pulse position modulation and pulse amplitude modulation to provide good system performance and low computational complexity. The channel capacity of PPAM is determined for a time-hopping multiple-access UWB communication system. The error probability and performance bounds are derived for a multiuser environment.

Keywords

channel capacity; code division multiple access; computational complexity; error statistics; multiuser channels; pulse amplitude modulation; signal processing; ultra wideband communication; CDMA; PPAM; UWB communications; channel capacity; code-division multiple access; computational complexity; error probability; multiuser environment; pulse position amplitude modulation; time-hopping multiple-access; ultra-wideband communication systems; AWGN; Amplitude modulation; Error probability; Multiaccess communication; Multiple access interference; Pulse modulation; Signal processing; System performance; Ultra wideband communication; Ultra wideband technology; Code-division multiple access (CDMA); pulse amplitude modulation (PAM); pulse position modulation (PPM); ultra-wideband (UWB) communications;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0090-6778

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TCOMM.2005.852828

Filename

1495846