This paper presents a low power impulse-radio ultra-wideband (IR-UWB) receiver based on a reconfigurable, high speed analog correlator called distributed pulse correlator (DPC). The DPC incorporates built-in local template pulse generation, and hence significantly reduces the power consumption and circuit complexity of the analog correlation receiver. A chip prototype of the IR-UWB receiver was...

We have constructed a fully functional, fully integrated radio receiver from a single carbon nanotube. The nanotube serves simultaneously as all essential components of a radio: antenna, tunable band-pass filter, amplifier, and demodulator. A direct current voltage source, as supplied by a battery, powers the radio. Using carrier waves in the commercially relevant 40-400 MHz range and both freq...

The cdma2000 system is an evolutionary enhancement of the IS-95 standards which support 3G services defined by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). cdma2000 comes in two phases: 1XRTT and 3XRTT (1X and 3X indicates the number of 1.25 MHz wide radio carrier channels used and RTT stands for Radio Transmission Technology). The cdma2000 1XRTT, which operates within a 1.25 MHz bandwidth...

In this paper a novel radio-interferometric object trajectory estimation method is proposed, which can be used to track moving objects. The system utilizes a low number of fixed infrastructure nodes equipped with radio transceivers, and the tracked object also carries a simple transceiver. Selected transmitter infrastructure nodes produce interference signals at the fixed infrastructure receive...

Increasing levels of Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) are a problem for research in radio astronomy. Various techniques to suppress RFI and extract astronomical signals from data affected by interference are being tried out. However, extracting weak astronomical signals in the spectral region affected by RFI remains a technological challenge. In this paper, we describe the construction of an ...

Monograph Article dissertation (summary + original articles) Department Laboratory Field of research Opponent(s) Supervisor (Instructor) Abstract Keywords radio frequency, radio receiver, direct conversion, low-noise amplifier, downconversion mixer Design, analysis, and optimization of radio frequency front-ends for integrated wireless receivers X This thesis consists of six publications and an...

This paper extends a recently proposed space-time model for Rayleigh fading to a 2 transmit, 2 receive antenna (2, 2) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channel with arbitrary spatial separation at the transmitter and at the receiver. The space-time correlation function for a non-isotropic scatterer distribution around the receiver is derived for the arbitrary configuration as a further exte...

In this paper a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) radio channel measurement system is presented that utilizes several software defined radio (SDR) platforms at the transmitter and at the receiver. The system hardware buildup and its calibration technique are presented. The channel measurement results are afterwards exploited for a special antenna synthesis method that was already proofed by...

AbstructThis paper is concerned with the mathematical modeling and analysis of a radio communication system design problem that seeks an optimal location of a single transmitter, or that of multiple transmitters, in order to serve a specified distribution of receivers. The problem is modeled by discretizing the radio coverage region into a grid of receiver locations and by specifying a function...

A modified MMSE receiver for multicarrier DS-CDMA operating in fading, multipath radio channels is presented. This structure is computationally efficient when the channel is rapidly time-varying. Subspace concepts are applied in a proposed blind implementation and simulations show that the new receiver can produce enhanced performance.