Analysis of the QAC IR-UWB receiver for low energy, low data-rate communication

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2423-2432

  Verhelst, Marian ^a   Dehaene, Wim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b RESEARCH FOUNDATION FLANDERS FWO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Energy efficiency; Impulse radio ultra wide band (IR UWB); Low data rate; Low power; Quadrature analog correlation (QAC) receiver

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); IMPULSE NOISE; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; RADIO; RADIO TRANSCEIVERS; SENSOR NETWORKS;

BODY AREA NETWORK; CHANNEL COMPENSATION; HIGH ENERGY EFFICIENCY; IMPULSE RADIO; LOW DATA RATES; LOW POWER; LOW-COMPLEXITY RECEIVER; OPTIMAL TRADEOFFS;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 54649084790     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2008.918230     Document Type: Article

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