corresponding reconstructed mean UWB signals and the mean of the sinusoidal fitted UWB data for B0 = 0T, 1T and 3T. Upper right: result of the t-test for each time step in t = [0,...,1.1s]. Middle and lower right: comparison of phase of the fit and p-values of the t-test on the phase. Fig. 1: Left: positioning of ECG electrodes and UWB antennas. Right: set-up of the combined ECG/UWB measurement...

Use of Ultra-wideband (UWB) for wireless communication in home networking requires cost effective technical solutions with high quality. This paper investigates the performance of simple receiver with zero forcing equalizer in place of rake receiver for hermite based UWB communication. The UWB system with simple receiver is simulated for the application of image transmission over IEEE UWB chann...

In this work we propose an orthogonal pulse waveform for wireless ultra wideband (UWB) transmission. The design is based on an ideal low-pass prototype filter having a windowed sinc impulse response. The frequency response of the prototype filter is transferred to the high frequency region using a specific sign modulator. The UWB pulse waveform comprises of the weighted summation of the left si...

In this paper, we propose a distance estimation scheme for radar systems using direct sequence ultra wideband (DS-UWB) signals. The proposed distance estimation scheme averages out the noise by accumulating the correlator outputs of the radar, and thus, helps the radar to employ a short-length DS-UWB signal reducing the correlation processing time. Numerical results confirm that the proposed di...

This paper investigates the Multi-bandOFDM (MB-OFDM) based Ultra-Wideband for working group on short-range high data-rate Ultra-wide-Band (UWB) communications. An overview of the MB-OFDM PHYlayer architecture with its various parameters is presented and the optimal choice of critical parameters is discussed. Next, we derive the theoretical un coded bit error rate (BER) of MB-OFDM over the fadin...

In this paper a low profile, small size polygon slot CPW fed antenna for broadband application is presented. The proposed antenna comprises of simple polygon radiator and rectangular ground plane. It resonates at 4.9 and 8.4 GHz frequency where return loss is well below to -10 dB. The proposed antenna is designed with FR4 epoxy substrate having dielectric constant of 4.4 and loss tangent of 0.0...

— An average Transmitted-Reference (TR) receiver scheme based on orthogonal codes is proposed for improving the bit error rate (BER) performance and the transmitting rate of Ultra-wideband (UWB) TR receiver systems in coal mine. Orthogonal codes are used for modulating the reference pulses and the data pulses in each frame of every bit. Since the orthogonality of the two codes, the inter-pulse...

A low-cost and portable vector network analyzer (VNA) which covered operating frequency between 1MHz to 3GHz is used for vector reflection coefficient and standing wave ratio (swr) of the various microstrip antennas. This paper presents measurements of various ultra wideband (uwb) microstrip antennas for applications in biomedical field. Selection of antenna is an important key for detection of...

This paper presents the results of a new monopole antenna that exhibits 2.75-10.7 GHz performance. The proposed antenna consists of a radiating patch with notches excited by capacitive coupling feed. Also, the antenna’s truncated ground-plane incorporates a central notch. This modification significantly improves the antenna’s impedance bandwidth by 118% over an ultra-wideband frequency range. T...

Due to the low power spectral properties of ultra wideband (UWB) signals, the technology is suitable to be used, e.g., in covert military applications. The open literature lacks of UWB radio channel models that are generated for outdoor use. This paper describes the radio channel measurement campaign carried out to increase the knowledge of the UWB propagation mechanisms in typical Finnish fore...