An ultrawideband system architecture for tag based wireless sensor networks

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1632-1645

  Stoica, Lucian ^a   Rabbachin, Alberto ^a   Repo, Heikki Olavi ^b   Tiuraniemi, Teemu Sakari ^a   Oppermann, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Noncoherent low complexity transceiver architecture; Sensor networks; SiGe BiCMOS; Ultrawideband impulse radio (UWB IR)

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; BROADBAND NETWORKS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; RADIO COMMUNICATION; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; TRANSCEIVERS;

NONCOHERENT LOW COMPLEXITY TRANSCEIVER ARCHITECTURE; ULTRAWIDEBAND-IMPULSE RADIO; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 29044433067     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2005.855501     Document Type: Article

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