Capacity Evaluation of UWB Systems in Indoor Environment

Author

Durantini, Annalisa ; Giuliano, Romeo ; Mazzenga, Franco

Author_Institution

RadioLabs, Rome

fYear

2006

fDate

11-14 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The capacity of UWB enabled wireless personal area networks is analyzed in a dense multipath environment. The performances of UWB systems employing a direct-sequence multiple access scheme are evaluated in terms of link outage probability and average aggregate network throughput, considering a network topology based on a clustered structure, formed by a multitude of uncoordinated coexisting piconets. We study the dependence of the system performances on some critical design choices, such as the Rake receiver scheme, the mono-pulse characteristics of the transmitted UWB signals, the structure of the piconet frame, the traffic characteristics. Results are obtained by applying a semi-analytical estimate procedure, which accounts of the large and small scale fading phenomena for the UWB indoor propagation channel

Keywords

fading channels; indoor radio; multi-access systems; multipath channels; personal area networks; probability; radio receivers; spread spectrum communication; telecommunication network topology; telecommunication traffic; ultra wideband communication; Rake receiver scheme; UWB indoor propagation channel; UWB systems; average aggregate network throughput; dense multipath environment; direct-sequence multiple access scheme; indoor environment; link outage probability; mono-pulse characteristics; network topology; traffic characteristics; uncoordinated coexisting piconets; wireless personal area networks; Aggregates; Fading; Indoor environments; Multipath channels; Network topology; Performance evaluation; Personal area networks; Signal design; Throughput; Wireless personal area networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2006 IEEE 17th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Helsinki

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0329-4

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0330-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.2006.254390

Filename

4022588