Designing time-hopping ultrawide bandwidth receivers for multiuser interference environments

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 255-284

  Beaulieu, Norman C ^a   Young, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Demodulation; Digital receivers; Error rate; Multiple access interference (MAI); Multiuser interference (MUI); Rake receiver; Receiver design; Ultra wide bandwidth (UWB)

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BENCHMARKING; BROADBAND NETWORKS; DEMODULATION; FADING (RADIO); FREQUENCY HOPPING; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); MATCHED FILTERS; MULTIPATH FADING; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; MULTIPLE ACCESS INTERFERENCE; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

DIGITAL RECEIVERS; ERROR RATE; MULTI-USER INTERFERENCE; RAKE RECEIVER; RECEIVER DESIGN; ULTRAWIDE BANDWIDTH;

SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

EID: 62949127488     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2008.2008782     Document Type: Article

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