Millimeter-accuracy Ultra-Wideband (UWB) positioning systems using the Time Difference Of Arrival (TDOA) algorithm are able to be utilized in military and many other important applications. Previous research on UWB positioning system has achieved up to mm or sub-mm accuracy. However, one bottleneck in UWB system is at sampling high resolution UWB signals, as well as high resolution timing infor...

Recently, ultra-wideband (UWB) technology, which uses a very short pulse for wireless digital communications, has been extensively investigated due to its significance that enables to transmit data sequences at a very high rate. Although the propagation range of UWB signals is short (about ten meters [1]), its impact on wireless home networks can be quite significant. Apart from the support of ...

The effect of UWB interference on the DCS-1800 and GSM-900 downlink is studied for different UWB power density. For high UWB power density (-70 dBm/MHz), the effect of UWB signals is very high when the distance between UWB transmitter and DCS-1800 receiver is less than 1 m. For low UWB power density (-100 dBm/MHz), the effect of the UWB signals is quasi null even if the distance between the UWB...

In this paper, we consider the possibility of developing an optimal medium access control (MAC) layer for high data rate ultra-wideband (UWB) transmission systems that transmit minimal power. MAC in UWB wireless networks is required to coordinate channel access among competing devices. The unique UWB characteristics offer great challenges and opportunities in effective UWB MAC design. We first ...

Millimeter-accuracy Ultra-Wideband (UWB) positioning systems using the Time Difference Of Arrival (TDOA) algorithm are able to be utilized in military and many other important applications. Previous research on UWB positioning system has achieved up to mm or sub-mm accuracy. However, one bottleneck in UWB system is at sampling high resolution UWB signals, as well as high resolution timing infor...

Abstract Ultra wideband (UWB) communication technology is a that uses very short time scale to transmit information. It has the advantages of high transmission rate, low power consumption, and good privacy. In this paper, basic principle UWB briefly described, several common technologies are emphatically expounded, characteristics each their disadvantages compared. At same time, article focuses...

For wireless transmission, the channel estimation is necessary to improve the performance of receiver. In the ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless systems, there are two practicable modulation schemes: orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) and single-carrier direct-sequence UWB (DS-UWB). The OFDM based scheme is an attractive mode because it can capture the multipath energy more efficientl...

This paper presents analysis of a digital Ultrawideband (UWB) radio receiver operating in the 3.1 GHz to 10.6 GHz band. Analog to digital converter (ADC) bit precision is analyzed on two types of UWB signals OFDM UWB and pulsed UWB all in the presence of Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) and a narrowband interferer in the channel. This paper shows how probability of error and the bit resolut...

Ultra−WideBand (UWB) technology was approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in February 2002 (FCC, 2002). According to the FCC regulations, the frequency band from 3.1 to 10.6 GHz can be used for short−range and high speed wireless communications systems. This recent allocation of a very wide spectrum of frequencies for the devices uses, with effective isotropic radiated power (...

In this paper an overview of the reported parameters of the Ultra Wide Band (UWB) indoor wireless channel is presented. First, an introduction to UWB technology as well as UWB wireless channels is provided. Then, impulse response model for the wireless indoor channel is introduced. The available UWB channel measurements results in indoor environments are consulted and accordingly, the major UWB...