This dissertation investigates Ultra-Wideband (UWB) techniques for the next generation Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) towards the Internetof-Things (IoT). In particular, an ultra-high frequency (UHF) wireless-powered UWB radio (UHF/UWB hybrid) with asymmetric links is explored from system architecture to circuit implementation. Context-aware, location-aware, and energy-aware computing fo...

this paper presents a low-cost compact planar microstrip-fed monopole antenna and its four-element array design for ultra-wideband (uwb) wireless communication and target detection applications, respectively, operating in the frequency span of 3 ghz to 11 ghz. a prototype was fabricated and then measured based on optimal parameters. the results of reflection coefficient (s11) and radiation patt...

Problem Description The thesis consists of: 1-Study and understating of the UWB technology 2-Study and understanding of methods and principals for/behind positioning using the UWB technology. 3-Identification of a few suitable methods for practical implementation of such functionality. 4-Comparison of these methods and recommendation of one of them as the most suitable implementation method. Su...

This paper demonstrates optimum receiver performance in terms of bit error rate (BER) for time hopping pulse position modulation (TH-PPM) ultra wideband (UWB) system in multiple user interference environment for indoor radio communication. Equal gain combining and selective gain combining have been demonstrated in terms of ideal RAKE (ARAKE), selective RAKE (SRAKE) and partial RAKE (PRAKE) rece...

In this paper, we propose a time-of-arrival (TOA) estimation scheme using impulse-radio ultra-wideband (IR-UWB). This scheme is featured by a low sampling rate and is robust against clock drift. Low-rate stroboscopic sampling, which can achieve an equivalent sampling rate as high as the Nyquist sampling rate, is adopted to achieve a high resolution TOA estimate by IR-UWB. Since a long preamble ...

Ultra-wideband (UWB) systems having a bandwidth on the order of gigahertz have recently received wide attention both in the U.S. and in Europe. The family of UWB systems may communicate either by generating ultra-wideband signals or with the aid of innovatively combining conventional narrowband, wideband, or broadband signals. At the time of writing, UWB systems have only been implemented using...

Low-complexity rapid timing acquisition constitutes a major challenge in realizing the high potential that ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless technology promises for indoor communications. We derive and test two such timing acquisition algorithms which capitalize on the cyclostationarity that is naturally present in UWB transmissions. Our novel schemes are blind, they do not require multiple antenna...

The most recent increase in demand within the wireless user community for short-range, very high rate data and video transmission devices has motivated the growth of a new generation of broadband wireless access communication systems, i.e. Ultra-Wideband (UWB) radio (1)-(4). UWB technology has been employed for several decades in military and commercial communications applications like high-spe...

Ultra-wideband (UWB) is the state-of-the-art and most popular technology for wireless localization. Nevertheless, precise ranging localization in non-line-of-sight (NLoS) conditions still an open research topic. Indeed, multipath effects, reflections, refractions, complexity of indoor radio environment can easily introduce a positive bias measurement, resulting highly inaccurate unsatisfactory ...