Performance of M-ary PPM UWB radio in fading channels

Journal of Communications and Networks

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 365-373

  Abdel Hafez, Mohammed ^a   Alagöz, Fatih ^b   Hämälänen, Matti ^c  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b HARRAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bit error rate (BER); Fading channels; Interference; M ary PPM modulation; Time hopping; Ultra wideband communications (UWB)

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BIT ERROR RATE; CHANNEL CAPACITY; ERROR ANALYSIS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); PULSE POSITION MODULATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

FADING CHANNELS; M-ARY PULSE POSITION MODULATION (PPM); TIME-HOPPING; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB) COMMUNICATION;

FADING (RADIO);

EID: 10844240790     PISSN: 12292370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JCN.2003.6596618     Document Type: Article

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