Performance analysis of non-coherent UWB receivers at different synchronization levels

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1266-1273

  He, Ning ^a   Tepedelenlioglu, Cihan ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential (DF); Non coherent; Performance; Synchronization; Transmitted reference (TR); Ultra wideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYNCHRONIZATION;

DIFFERENTIAL (DF) SCHEME; NON-COHERENT; TRANSMITTED REFERENCE (TR); ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

EID: 33745077394     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2006.1638646     Document Type: Article

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