Performance of ultra-wideband communications with suboptimal receivers in multipath channels

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1754-1766

  Choi, John D ^a   Stark, Wayne E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation receiver; Diversity combining; On off keying (OOK); Pulse position modulation (PPM); Rake receiver; Transmitted reference (TR); Ultra wideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); PERFORMANCE; PULSE POSITION MODULATION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; WHITE NOISE;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB) COMMUNICATION SYSTEM;

TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036902915     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2002.805623     Document Type: Article

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