A search strategy for ultra-wideband signal acquisition

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2015-2019

  Vijayakumaran, Saravanan ^a   Wong, Tan F ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Multipath channels; Search strategy; Serial search; Ultra wideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BANDWIDTH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; PROBABILITY; RAYLEIGH FADING; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

MULTIPATH CHANNELS; PERMUTATION SEARCH STRATEGY; SERIAL SEARCH; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB) CHANNEL;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY);

EID: 30344471076     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2005.860074     Document Type: Article

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