M OBILE communications services are penetrating our society at an explosive rate. The major services that the second-generation mobile systems provide are limited to basic services (e.g., voice and low-bit rate data). We have entered the 21st century, when demands for a variety of wideband services (e.g., high-speed Internet access and the video/high-quality images transmission) will continue t...

This paper is focused on a wireless energy harvesting system using a rectifying antenna (rectenna). The proposed device consists of a wideband cross-dipole antenna, a microwave low-pass filter and a doubling rectifying circuit using Shottcky diodes as rectifying elements. Previously, a few of wideband rectennas have been investigated at 1.7 to 2.5 GHz. The originality of this paper is on the ne...

For high data rate ultra wideband communication system, performance study of mutual interference such as suppression of interference signal by performing pulse shaping from UWB to other narrowband system using wavelet technique and reduction of interference from other narrowband system to UWB system in conjunction with Transmitted-Reference (TR-UWB) signaling scheme with adaptive receivers is a...

There have recently been research efforts that leverage compressive sampling to enable wideband spectrum sensing recovery at sub-Nyquist rates. These efforts consider homogenous wideband spectrum, where all bands are assumed to have similar PU traffic characteristics. In practice, however, wideband spectrum is not homogeneous, in that different bands could present different occupancy patterns. ...

The demands for broadband services by wireless communication systems are rapidly growing. An ultra wideband radio technology has become an important topic for microwave communication because of its low cost and low power consumption. The ultra wideband technology is specified the frequencies ranging from 3.1 GHz to 10.6 GHz by Federal Communication Commission (FCC), which has a bandwidth ratio ...

A design methodology for wideband CMOS low noise amplifier (LNA) with source degeneration is presented. By allowing an arbitrary source degeneration and employing a general input matching network, the minimum noise figure of the proposed wideband CMOS LNA can be made independent of the transistor width by properly choosing the source degeneration reactance. This result shows that the proposed t...

This paper presents the analysis of Ricean K-factor for wideband high-speed railway channels at 2.35 GHz, based on radio channel measurements under viaduct and U-shape cutting scenarios. We characterize the K-factor from the perspective of narrowband, wideband and delay, according to the measured channel responses. The time-frequency varying narrowband K-factors in two scenarios are analyzed an...

Wideband spectrum sensing capability can be enabled in GNU Radio, which is an open source software radio platform. In order to improve the detection performance of GNU Radio in practice, we studied its approach of wideband spectrum sensing, i.e., multistep frequency-domain energy detection. We first gave a detailed analysis of the functions and implementation details in its wideband spectrum se...

Within the context of modern digital phased array (DPA) radios, differential Radio Frequency (RF) front-ends provide much greater immunity to noise and distortion by suppressing second order harmonics. Recent advancements in RF offer high dynamic range, linearity, low transceiver chain. However, a major roadblock fully systems is presence common-mode resonances. In this article, we present nove...

The emergence of compressed sensing (CS) theory provides potential hardware architecture to sub-Nyquist sample the wideband signals. However, applying this discrete CS model to continuous analogue signals is not an easy task. The modulated wideband converter (MWC) is an efficient wideband compressed sampling architecture for the sparse multiband signals. In this paper, a soft-calibration system...