UWB Autocorrelation Receiver Based on Average Differential Transmitted Reference

There are strong noise components included in the reference signal and the received signal of the ultrawideband (UWB) differential transmitted reference (DTR) autocorrelation receiver, which impact on the receiver's performance seriously. Therefore this paper proposes a autocorrelation receiver based on average differential transmitted reference (ADTR). This receiver averages the received signals within every frame of the previous symbol period to form the new reference signal. The received signals within each frame of the current symbol interval are also averaged to construct the new received signal, which is correlated with the new reference signal to restore the transmitted symbols. Theoretical analysis and simulation results confirm that BER performance of ADTR autocorrelation receiver is better than the DTR receiver. Compared with DTR receiver, the signal to noise ratio gains of the ADTR receiver are 1.1dB with Ns=3 and 2.1dB with Ns=6 respectively when BER=10-4.