An Effective Selective Detection Scheme Based on Pulse Repetition for Noncoherent UWB Systems

We propose a selective detection scheme based on pulse repetition considering the bit-error rate (BER) performance and complexity of noncoherent ultra-wide-band (UWB) systems. To take system complexity into account, the proposed scheme transmits the UWB signals by simple pulse repetition at the transmitter, like conventional pulse repetition coding (PRC). However, to effectively improve the BER performance, the proposed scheme performs selective detection by estimating the signal-to-noise ratio of the received pulse-repeated signals at the UWB receiver. Hence, the proposed scheme effectively improves the BER performance of the noncoherent UWB systems without much increasing system complexity, as compared to the conventional PRC.