Low complexity chirp pulsed ultra-wideband system with near-optimum multipath performance

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 208-218

  Dotlić, Igor ^a   Kohno, Ryuji ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

chirp modulation; pulse compression; transceiver design; UWB

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL PROPERTIES; CHIRP DURATION; CHIRP PULSE; DIFFERENTIALLY COHERENT DETECTION; DIGITAL PARTS; ERROR PERFORMANCE; IMPLEMENTATION ERROR; IMPULSE RADIO ULTRA-WIDEBAND; LINEAR CHIRP; LOSS PERFORMANCE; LOW COMPLEXITY; LOW-PASS FILTERING; MULTI-PATH; MULTIPATH CHANNELS; MULTIPATH ENERGY; MULTIPATH PERFORMANCE; NOVEL METHODS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; RECEIVED SIGNALS; SAMPLING RECEIVERS; SYSTEM'S PERFORMANCE; TRANSCEIVER DESIGN; TRANSMITTED SIGNAL; ULTRA WIDE BAND SYSTEMS; UWB; UWB PULSE; WAVE FORMS;

BROADBAND NETWORKS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; PULSE COMPRESSION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; TRANSCEIVERS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

CHIRP MODULATION;

EID: 78651503504     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2010.111910.100246     Document Type: Article

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