3-5 GHz UWB impulse radio transmitter and receiver MMIC optimized for long range precision wireless sensor networks

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 58, Issue 12 PART 2, 2010, Pages 4040-4051

  Xia, Jingjing ^a   Law, Choi Look ^a   Zhou, Yuan ^a   Koh, Kee Siang ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Noncoherent demodulation; pulse generation; sensor networks; transceiver architecture; ultra wideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

ANALOGUE TO DIGITAL CONVERTERS; BASEBAND AMPLIFIERS; CONVERSION GAIN; EQUIVALENT TIME; GAAS HBT; INTEGRATE CIRCUIT; LONG RANGE; LOW COSTS; LOW-POWER CONSUMPTION; NONCOHERENT DEMODULATION; NONCOHERENT DETECTION; PEAK POWER; PEAK-POWER CONSTRAINTS; POSITION ERRORS; POWER CONSUMPTION; PRECISION LOCALIZATION; PULSE GENERATION; RANGE ERROR; REPETITIVE RATES; TANGENTIAL SIGNAL SENSITIVITIES; TEST RESULTS; TIME DIFFERENCE OF ARRIVAL; TIME OF ARRIVAL RANGING; TRANSCEIVER ARCHITECTURE; TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVER; ULTRA WIDEBAND IMPULSE RADIO; UWB IMPULSE RADIO; WIRELESS LOCALIZATION;

BROADBAND NETWORKS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DEMODULATION; IMPULSE NOISE; MICROWAVE SENSORS; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PULSE GENERATORS; RADIO; RADIO BROADCASTING; SENSOR NETWORKS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; TRANSCEIVERS; TRANSMITTERS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

EID: 78650414480     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2010.2083682     Document Type: Conference Paper

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