UWB (Ultra-Wideband) is one of the WPAN (Wireless Personal Area Network) Technologies; its main applications include imaging systems, vehicular radar systems and communications and measurement systems. Ever since the FCC released unlicensed spectrum of 3.1-10.6 GHz for UWB application in 2002, UWB has received significant interest from both industry and academia. Comparing with traditional narr...

This paper presents an overview of ultrawideband (UWB) communications systems, i.e., systems with very large relative and/or absolute bandwidth. The large bandwidth and low power spectral density mandated for UWB systems allows to use them as overlay over existing (legacy) systems, i.e., they can be used in the same frequency range as existing systems without causing undue interference. We also...

An ultra-wideband (UWB) power divider is designed in this paper. The UWB performance of this power divider is obtained by using a tapered microstrip line that consists of exponential and elliptic sections. The coarse grained parallel micro-genetic algorithm (PMGA) and CST Microwave Studio are combined to achieve an automated parallel design process. The method is applied to optimize the UWB pow...

This paper presents an approach for a precise 2D-localization of a mobile station in indoor scenarios by one single base station only. In the approach both, the Direction of Arrival (DoA) and the Time of Arrival (ToA), are estimated using UWB beamformers at both sides of the link. The article describes the algorithm, as well as the required hardware. A duallinear polarized, directive UWB antenn...

There are several types of ultra wideband (UWB) radar systems which can be used with advantage for the purpose of detection and tracking of persons moving behind obstacles. The intention of this paper is to test in real conditions performance of an impulse UWB radar in comparison with an M-sequence UWB radar for the mentioned application. For that purpose a through-wall measurement with two per...

Cooperative diversity has emerged as a major technique of providing gains from spatial diversity to devices/terminals. While ultra-wideband (UWB) offers high information rates for wireless communication and sensor networks, the EIRP limits on UWB devices severely affects its coverage radius. In this paper, a low complexity cooperative diversity scheme for UWB channel is proposed. The scheme use...

This paper reports an evaluation of UWB radio technology and Time-Reversal (TR) technique in tunnel environments for train-to-wayside communication. UWB technology has the potential to offer simultaneous ground-totrain communication, train location and obstacle detection in front of the trains. Time-Reversal channel pre-filtering facilitates signal detection and helps reduce interference. Thus,...

The technology for through-wall human detection with ultra-wideband (UWB) radar was discussed. Due to the large amount of UWB radar data, compressive sensing theory was introduced and compressed UWB radar data can be collected. The singular value decomposition algorithm was used to acquire the singular values of compressed radar data. The compressed UWB radar data were collected at two statuses...

Ultra-wideband (UWB) bandpass filters play a key role in the development of UWB systems. In this paper, we present a review on their development since the release of UWB band for indoor and hand-held systems by Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 2002.

Performance evaluation of time-hopping UWB using various modulation techniques has been proposed. Then the performance improvement is analysed based on the BERs of various existing methods. Recently a new method called TH-BPSK UWB system is proposed which provides a better performance than all other existing systems. The literature survey discusses all the existing techniques of UWB communication.