Demodulation and tracking with dirty templates for UWB impulse ratio: Algorithms and performance

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1595-1608

  Farahmand, Shahrokh ^a   Luo, Xiliang ^a   Giannakis, Georgios B ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

RAKE receiver; Synchronization; Time lock loops; Timing offset estimation; Tracking performance; Ultra wideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMODULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERFORMANCE; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

IMPULSE RADIO; TIME LOCK LOOPS; TIMING OFFSET ESTIMATION; TRACKING PERFORMANCE; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

RADIO COMMUNICATION;

EID: 29044449832     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2005.854032     Document Type: Article

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