A novel zonal UWB receiver structure with improved performance in multiple access interference

GLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 4118-4123

  Shao, Hua ^a,b   Beaulieu, Norman C ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; MULTIPLE ACCESS INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

BANDWIDTH RECEIVER; ULTRA-WIDE BANDWIDTH RECEIVER; ZONAL RECEIVER;

RADIO RECEIVERS;

EID: 39349114769     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2007.783     Document Type: Conference Paper

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