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...

This paper introduce the concept of cognitive UWB radio, a wireless system based on UWB transmission able to self adapt to the characteristics of the surrounding environment. UWB is an promising underlying method for coexistence among different systems. However, the performance may not be as good as expected due to the changing spectrum environment. Thus, cognitive UWB radio is proposed by taki...

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...

An investigation of magnetic current distribution of CPW fed arrow shaped UWB antenna is reported. This enables the precise prediction of working principle of UWB antenna, since the traditional UWB antenna simulations ignore important details. The computation was performed numerically for an arrow shaped antenna at different resonant frequencies at various input current phase changes and was fo...

This paper investigated the feasibility for improved detection of human respiration using data fusion based on a multistatic ultra-wideband (UWB) radar. UWB-radar-based respiration detection is an emerging technology that has great promise in practice. It can be applied to remotely sense the presence of a human target for through-wall surveillance, post-earthquake search and rescue, etc. In the...

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...

Measurement and reconstruction of wireless pulses is an important scheme in wireless ultra wide band (UWB) technology. In contrary to the band-limited analog signals, which can be recovered from evenly spaced samples, the reconstruction of the UWB pulses is a more demanding task. In this work we describe an exponential sampling filter (ESF) for measurement and reconstruction of UWB pulses. The ...

In most research on error correction coding for UWB techniques, the channel is assumed to be Gaussian, whereas the multipath case is neglected. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of a realistic and feasible UWB-IR system in a severe multipath environment. We model the nonlinearities introduced by UWB antennas, by using their real characteristics obtained through the measurements. We pre...

For the multi-user application the multiple access interference (MAI) due to imperfect orthogonality between spreading codes induced by UWB dense multi-path significantly degrades system performance. Over the past few years, performance analyses for various UWB systems in an AWGN environment have been presented. However, those works did not consider UWB multipath effect; thus leading to an unac...

The low transmission power and very large bandwidth used by Ultra-Wide band (UWB) radio systems ,enables them co-exist with other narrow-band systems over the same frequency band without interfering the narrow-band systems. Nevertheless, the interference caused by these narrow-band systems may jam the UWB receiver. Existing narrow-band interference suppression methods for spread spectrum system...