On RAKE receivers for ultra-wideband binary block-coded PPM in dense multipath channels

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 56, Issue 4 I, 2007, Pages 1737-1748

  Zhang, Qu ^a,b   Cho, Joon Ho ^c  

^a University of Massachusetts Amherst   (United States)

^b MATHWORKS INC   (United States)

^c Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Dense multipath channels; Performance analysis; RAKE receiver; System optimization; Ultra wideband (UWB) communications

Indexed keywords

BINARY CODES; BIT ERROR RATE; BLOCK CODES; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); OPTIMIZATION; PULSE POSITION MODULATION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

DENSE MULTIPATH CHANNELS; ORTHOGONAL BINARY BLOCK-CODED PULSE-POSITION-MODULATION; SYSTEM OPTIMIZATION; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB) COMMUNICATIONS;

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 34547567253     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2007.897626     Document Type: Article

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