Ultra-wideband signal acquisition with hybrid DS-TH spreading

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2504-2515

  Aedudodla, Sandeep R ^a,b   Vijayakumaran, Saravanan ^a,b   Wong, Tan F ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Hybrid DS TH spreading; Multipath channel; Ultra wideband

Indexed keywords

DIRECT SEQUENCE (DS) SPREADING; HYBRID DS-TH SPREADING; MULTIPATH CHANNEL; SIGNAL ACQUISITION; ULTRA-WIDEBAND;

BROADBAND NETWORKS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33748626004     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2006.1687774     Document Type: Article

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