Performance of ultra-wideband communications with suboptimal receivers in multipath channels

Author

Choi, John D. ; Stark, Wayne E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Volume

20

Issue

9

fYear

2002

fDate

12/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1754

Lastpage

1766

Abstract

The performance of a single-user ultra-wideband (UWB) communication system employing binary block-coded pulse-position modulation (PPM) and suboptimal receivers in multipath channels is considered. The receivers examined include a RAKE receiver with various diversity combining schemes and an autocorrelation receiver, which is used in conjunction with transmitted reference (TR) signaling. A general framework is provided for deriving the performance of these receivers in multipath channels corrupted by additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN). By employing previous measurements of indoor UWB channels, we obtain numerical results for several cases which illustrate the tradeoff between performance and receiver complexity.

Keywords

AWGN; binary codes; block codes; broadband networks; correlation methods; diversity reception; indoor radio; modulation coding; multipath channels; pulse position modulation; radio networks; radio receivers; radiowave propagation; AWGN; PPM; RAKE receiver; additive white Gaussian noise; autocorrelation receiver; binary block-coded pulse-position modulation; diversity combining; indoor UWB channels; multipath channels; receiver complexity; receiver performance; single-user UWB communication system; suboptimal receivers; transmitted reference signaling; ultra-wideband communications; Autocorrelation; Bandwidth; Diversity reception; Fading; Frequency; Multipath channels; Pulse modulation; RAKE receivers; Ultra wideband communication; Ultra wideband technology;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8716

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JSAC.2002.805623

Filename

1097841