Time-hopping ultra-wideband technology presents some very attractive features for future indoor wireless systems in terms of achievable transmission rate and multiple access capabilities. This paper develops an algorithm to design time-hopping system simulators specially suitable for ultra-wideband, which takes advantage of some of the specific characteristics of this kind of systems. The algor...

A signal interpolation technique based on the Hilbert transform of a signal is proposed. This technique can be efficiently used for fractional time delay estimation. A useful application of the technique is demonstrated using examples of digital beamforming with wideband signals. Conventional wideband signal beamforming is computationally intensive due to the calculation of fractional time dela...

The tradeoff of spectral efficiency (b/s/Hz) versus energy-per-information bit is the key measure of channel capacity in the wideband power-limited regime. This paper finds the fundamental bandwidth–power tradeoff of a general class of channels in the wideband regime characterized by low, but nonzero, spectral efficiency and energy per bit close to the minimum value required for reliable commun...

An energy efficient ultra-wideband (UWB) transmitter based on the novel transmitted reference pulse cluster (TRPC) modulation scheme is presented. The TRPC-UWB transmitter integrates, namely, wideband active baluns, wideband I-Q modulator based up-conversion mixer, and differential to single-ended converter. The integrated circuits of TRPC-UWB front end is designed and implemented in the 130-nm...

Based on the sources’ smoothed rank profile (SRP) and modified minimum description length (MMDL) principle, a method for estimation of the source coherency structure (SCS) and the number of wideband sources is proposed in this paper. Instead of focusing, we first use a spatial smoothing technique to pre-process the array covariance matrix of each frequency for de-correlating the sources and the...

The use of wideband active sonar array processing to estimate the range, velocity and bearing of a target has received much interest in the literature recently. Although increased attention has been focused on wideband correlation processing for estimating range and velocity, array directivity patterns are almost always computed and interpreted under the narrowband signal assumption. This paper...

Wireless telephone speech is usually limited to the 300 − 3400Hz band, which reduces its quality. There is thus a growing demand for wideband speech systems that transmit from 50Hz to 8000 Hz. This paper presents an algorithm to generate wideband speech from narrowband speech using as low as 500 bits/s of side information. The 50 − 300Hz band is predicted from the narrowband signal. A sourceexc...

Abstract—A new wideband and high-gain dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) is proposed. Three cylindrical dielectric resonators (DRs) with different materials and different sizes and a metallic cylinder are designed to obtain a wideband bandwidth and a high gain. The stacked structure provides a wideband bandwidth, and the cavity formed by the metallic cylinder provides a high gain. The measured ...

In this paper, we present new results on Temporal Decomposition (TD) applied to the Line Spectral Frequencies (LSFs) derived for wideband speech. The paper shows that by incorporating a dynamic programming search algorithm into TD, near transparent quantisation of wideband LSFs can be obtained at approximately 1 kbps. We also show that TD performs significantly better than Split Vector Quantisa...

Abstract—In this paper, a compact microstrip wideband bandpass filter (BPF) based on square ring loaded resonator (SRLR) is proposed. The SRLR is formed by loading a pair of bent open-stubs outside the diagonal corners of a square ring, which generates three split degenerated modes. The first two split modes form a dominant wideband passband. By introducing another pair of loaded open-stubs, th...