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Ultra Wide Band (UWB) is foreseen to support a physical layer in Body Area Networks (BAN). The nature of the channel leads to the spread of the signal energy through the numerous paths from the reflexions in the environment. With such a multipath channel, inter-pulses interference (IPI) may occur if the channel delay spread is longer than the interval between two consecutive pulses. An energy detector...
This paper addresses the robustness of FM-UWB BAN radio to frequency-selective multipath and interference. Examples of the FM-UWB radio performance with IEEE802.15.6 BAN channel models are given. Robustness to interference is demonstrated and interference mitigation solutions at the physical layer of the receiver front-end are presented and illustrated with simulation results.
This paper proposes a symbol-level synchronization technique for ultra-wideband (UWB) communications in networks without power control. The near-far problem dramatically degrades the performance of synchronization for UWB communications. The technique is based on an easy-to-implement procedure to suppress the interfering waveforms from high-power users without requiring knowledge of their spreading...
In this paper a new time domain approach which combines time reversal (TR) and downlink spatial beamforming (BF) is proposed that can result in WB/UWB Interference Mitigation (IM). In order to design the TR filter and the desired beams, the Channel State Information (CSI) between the UWB system and the other wideband (WB) victim users is required. This information is obtained using a hybrid Electromagnetic...
The large bandwidth and low power level of UWB make it vulnerable to interference. Particularly in a cell phone the interference levels are high. These high interference levels require strong interference suppression. In this paper we propose a new approach for interference suppression in UWB. This approach combines analog suppression with flexible digital suppression in a UWB receiver. To suppress...
In this work, we propose an interference mitigation technique for ultrawide band (UWB)-impulse radio (IR) systems in the context of cognitive radio (CR). Such technique is based on the design of proper spreading sequences that introduce notch frequencies in both transmitted spectrum and matched filter (MF) receiver. In particular, binary, quaternary and polyphase direct sequence (DS) codes are proposed...
This paper presents an ultra-wideband (UWB) bandpass filter for UWB applications and notch filter for the purpose of reducing interference from the WLAN (802.11a) when it coexist with UWB radio system. The bandpass filter consists of a hexagonal shaped multiple mode resonator (MMR) with interdigital coupling at both sides. The notch filter consists of four identical open ended stubs nearby the MMR...
In this paper, a blind method to detect and suppress narrow-band interference (NBI) for multi-band orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (MB-OFDM) based ultrawideband (UWB) communications is proposed. The method utilizes mean-square-error (MSE) statistics in the frequency domain to detect subcarriers damaged by NBI. Approximating the MSE statistics by a decision-feedback (DF) scheme creates a...
We propose a Widely Linear Multistage Wiener Filter (WL-MSWF) receiver to suppress the multi-user interference and the inter/intra-symbol interference in a high data rate Direct Sequence Ultra Wideband (DS-UWB) system. To this end, a non-circular modulation, e.g., Binary Phase Shift Keying (BPSK), is applied. We develop reduced-rank versions of the Least Mean Square (LMS) and the Recursive Least Squares...
A novel linear blind reduced-rank scheme based on the constrained constant modulus (CCM) design criterion is proposed for interference suppression in direct-sequence ultra-wideband (DS-UWB) systems. The proposed two-stage blind receiver consists of a projection matrix that performs dimensionality reduction and is followed by a reduced-rank filter that produces the output. The projection matrix and...
A novel Narrowband Interference (NBI) suppression scheme using a Soft Limiter (SLM) is proposed for a digital noncoherent receiver in Time-Hopping Pulse Position Modulation Ultra Wideband (TH-PPM-UWB) communications. The NBI suppression is carried out in the analog domain (before the digital processing) via a feedforward structure. The suitability of this NBI suppression concept is confirmed by the...
An ultra-wideband (UWB) system has a frequency bandwidth that overlaps with spectra of many existing narrowband radio systems. As a result, impact of narrowband interference (NBI) becomes a key issue in the development of UWB systems. In this paper, under the IEEE802.15.4a industrial line-of-sight (LOS) channel model, the effects of NBI on the performance of the recently proposed differential code-shifted...
The design of an ultra-wideband (UWB) CMOS receiver front-end that integrates a broadband single-ended low-noise amplifier (LNA) and a quadrature downconversion balun-mixer is presented. Noise-canceling technique is employed in the LNA to decouple input match from noise figure (NF). To be directly driven by the LNA, the balun-mixer has a single-ended input double-balanced topology. For low power consumption,...
New channel estimation technique is proposed for multiband orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MB-OFDM) ultra-wideband (UWB) systems. Several steps have been carried out to achieve this purpose. In first step, refined least square (LS) channel estimation is found out by using subspace-based narrowband interference (NBI) estimation method with prilimonary LS channel. In second step, low rank...
Electromagnetic interference can disrupt mobile satellite communications in both military and commercial mobile applications. Not only is this true when a high-power terrestrial source is in close proximity to a mobile satellite receiver, but it can be especially problematic when the vehicle or nearby vehicle has its own onboard interference source that overpowers the desired satellite signal. This...
Impulse radio ultra-wideband offers the potential of high data rate communication and accurate ranging with low power. However, synchronisation of impulse radio systems is known to be difficult. To be able to detect pulses with low energy, the receiver needs to combine multiple pulses. Traditionally, coherent and non-coherent signal combination are used. The vectorial sum of the samples used for coherent...
A sub-band based ultra wideband (SUWB) system is proposed for energy efficient short range wireless communications. The proposed technique divides the bandwidth of 500 MHz into number of sub-bands that may be utilized for higher data rate or higher reliability or multi user access depending on system requirements. The energy efficiency is achieved by reducing the sampling rate requirements and also...
Since the coherent receivers are not feasible to implement low-cost ultra-wideband (UWB) impulse radio (IR) devices featuring extremely low power consumption, energy detector-based (ED-based) noncoherent receivers are more and more frequently chosen. The Pulse Polarity Modulation (PPM) scheme with a threshold compensated receiver is a promising candidate for the implementation of cheap and robust...
Synchronization is a crucial task and big challenge for ultra-wideband (UWB) systems, especially in the presence of inter-symbol interference(ISI) and inter-frame interference (IFI). This paper proposes a blind synchronization and demodulation algorithm that is capable of mitigating ISI and IFI for noncoherent UWB system. Employing a series of codeword matching and averaging operations, the proposal...
We propose a b-bit non-coherent receiver based on a Digital Code Matched Filter (DCMF) for a low data rate Time- Hopping Pulse Position Modulation Ultra Wide Band (TH-PPMUWB) system. The DCMF follows after a high-speed but lowresolution (b-bit, 1 ≤ b ≤ 4) Analog-to-Digital Convertor (ADC) and is employed before the non-coherent detection. It is matched to the user-specific sequence and restricts the...
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