Uncoordinated rate-division multiple-access scheme for pulsed UWB signals

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1646-1662

  Weisenhorn, Martin ^a   Hirt, Walter ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Impulse radio; Low duty cycle; Rate division multiple access (RDMA); Ultra wideband (UWB); Uncoordinated multiple access

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PACKET NETWORKS; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; TRANSMITTERS;

IMPULSE RADIO; LOW DUTY CYCLE; RATE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; UNCOORDINATED MULTIPLE ACCESS;

RADIO COMMUNICATION;

EID: 29044442357     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2005.853980     Document Type: Article

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