UWB systems for wireless sensor networks

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 313-331

  Zhang, Jinyun ^a   Orlik, Philip V ^a   Sahinoglu, Zafer ^a   Molisch, Andreas F ^b   Kinney, Patrick ^c  

^a MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Kinney Consulting LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Coding and multiple access (MCM); Line of sight (LOS); Low rate (LR); Modulation; Multipath component (MPC); Non line of sight (NLOS); Physical layer (PHY); Precision ranging (PR); Pulse position modulation (PPM); Time hopping impulse radio (TH IR); Ultra wide band (UWB); Wireless personal area network (WPAN); Wireless sensor networks (WSNs)

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND NETWORKS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; FACTORY AUTOMATION; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; IMPULSE NOISE; MODULATION; NETWORK LAYERS; PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PULSE POSITION MODULATION; RADIO; SENSOR NODES; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

LINE OF SIGHT; LOW RATES; MULTI-PATH COMPONENTS; MULTIPLE ACCESS; NONLINE OF SIGHT; PHYSICAL LAYERS; PRECISION RANGING (PR); TIME-HOPPING IMPULSE RADIOS; WIRELESS PERSONAL AREA NETWORKS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK (WSNS);

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 62949174432     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2008.2008786     Document Type: Article

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