Adaptive CA-CFAR threshold for non-coherent IR-UWB energy detector receivers

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 959-961

  Maali, Abdelmadjid ^a   Mesloub, Ammar ^a   Djeddou, Mustapha ^a   Mimoun, Hassane ^b   Baudoin, Genevieve ^b   Ouldali, Abdelaziz ^a  

^a ECOLE MILITAIRE POLYTECHNIQUE   (Algeria)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

Author keywords

Cell averaging constant false alarm rate (CA CFAR); Time of arrival (TOA); Ultra wideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

CA-CFAR; CELL AVERAGING; CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE; TIME-OF-ARRIVAL;

ALARM SYSTEMS; BROADBAND NETWORKS; CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERRORS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RADAR SYSTEMS; SIGNAL DETECTION;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 73449119616     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2009.12.091579     Document Type: Article

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