Low complexity Rake receivers in ultra-wideband channels

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1265-1274

  Cassioli, Dajana ^a,b   Win, Moe Z ^a,c   Vatalaro, Francesco ^a,d   Molisch, Andreas F ^a,e,f,g  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^e AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^f MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^g LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Partial Rake; Reduced complexity Rake receivers; Selective Rake; Stochastic tapped delay line model; UWB propagation channel

Indexed keywords

PARTIAL RAKE; REDUCED COMPLEXITY RAKE RECEIVERS; SELECTIVE RAKE; STOCHASTIC TAPPED-DELAY LINE MODELS; UWB PROPAGATION CHANNELS;

BANDWIDTH; FADING CHANNELS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; STATISTICS;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY);

EID: 34247350779     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2007.348323     Document Type: Article

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