A novel zonal UWB receiver with superior performance

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1197-1206

  Shao, Hua ^a   Beaulieu, Norman C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bit error rate; Demodulation; Digital receiver; Multipath fading channel; Multiple access interference; Rake receiver; Ultra wide bandwidth

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE THRESHOLDS; CONVENTIONAL MATCHED FILTERS; DIGITAL RECEIVER; MATCHED FILTERS; MULTI-PATH COMPONENTS; MULTIPLE-ACCESS INTERFERENCES; PROPAGATION CHANNELS; RAKE RECEIVER; SIGNAL-TO-INTERFERENCE-PLUS-NOISE RATIOS; SIMULATION RESULTS; TIME-HOPPING; ULTRA-WIDE BANDWIDTH; ULTRA-WIDE BANDWIDTH RECEIVERS; UWB CHANNELS; UWB RECEIVERS;

ADAPTIVE ANTENNA ARRAYS; BANDWIDTH; BIT ERROR RATE; CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; DEMODULATION; FADING (RADIO); MULTIPATH FADING; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADIO INTERFERENCE; RADIO RECEIVERS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

MULTIPLE ACCESS INTERFERENCE;

EID: 62949135724     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2009.04.070230     Document Type: Article

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