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...

Ultra-wideband (UWB) radio is a transmission technology that is based on short pulses, whose spectral width is on the order of several GHz. UWB signals are free of sine-wave carriers, and their duty cycle and power spectral density are low. These characteristics provide UWB radio with unique advantages: improved immunity to multi-path fading, increased ranging resolution, large tolerance to int...

This article presents a new transmitted reference UWB receiver, which utilizes the orthogonal property of even and odd order derivatives of Gaussian pulses in neighboring chips for synchronization. This system, referred to as orthogonal TR-UWB (OTR-UWB), employs only a single spreading code, which results in much lower mean detection time compared to DS-UWB systems. The hardware complexity for ...

Data rates and quality of service are limited by the fact that, for the duration of any given connection, they experience severe variation in signal strength. As reported any UWB system faces major challenges in achieving wide coverage without affecting the system performance. In this paper, a cooperative scheme in UWB is proposed so as to enhance the performance and coverage of UWB by using co...

The UWB (Ultra Wide Band) technology can play an effective role in FCS (Fieldbus Control System). But the channel acquisition time of UWB is high, and a lot of packets are short in FCS. So the efficiency of FCS based on UWB will significantly reduce. In this paper, a CSMA/CA protocol with D-UF (Dynamic Length Mechanism for Unite Frame) is proposed. The characteristics of UWB and size of data pa...

Ultra wideband (UWB) is a promising technology for short range and high-speed wireless communications such as home entertainment, wireless video downloading, wireless LAN, wireless USB and so on. This dissertation studied several important issues in the application of UWB technology and its contributions are summarized as follows. First, a 2-stage optimal UWB pulse shaping filter design procedu...

Physical layer attacks allow attackers to manipulate (spoof) ranging and positioning. These attacks had real world impact and allowed car thefts, executions of unauthorised payments and manipulation of navigation. UWB impulse radio (UWB-IR) has emerged as a prominent technique for precise ranging that allows high operating distances despite power constraints by transmitting multi-pulse symbols....

The paper presents results of a co-existence measurement study between multiple ultra wideband (UWB) transmitters and a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) mobile phone. Two environments were explored: an anechoic chamber with one operating UMTS link and a true operational UMTS network. A large number of FCC compatible UWB transmitters were used to generate interference for an act...

Ultra-Wideband1 (UWB) is a radio transmission scheme that uses extremely low power pulses of radio energy spread across a wide spectrum of frequencies. UWB has several advantages over conventional continuous wave radio communications including potential support for high data rates, robustness to multipath interference and fading. We present an overview of UWB technology and its use in data comm...