Ultra-wideband (UWB) radio is a fast emerging technology with uniquely attractive features inviting major advances in wireless communications, networking, radar, imaging, and positioning systems. UWB radios offer great flexibility and shows enormous potential in view of future fourth generation (4G) broadband wireless access in dense multipath environments. In this paper jointly PHY and MAC lay...

In this paper, the suitabilities of direct sequence ultra wideband (DS-UWB) and ultra wideband frequency modulation (UWB-FM) are studied for medical applications. The system performances are studied by applying the measured hospital channels. The channel measurements were done at the Oulu University hospital in 2005. The measurement campaign included three different hospital environments, i.e. ...

A compact rectangular printed antenna with dual band-notches is proposed for ultra-wideband (UWB) applications. The dual band-notch characteristics have been realized by etching one C-shaped parasitic element and rectangular split ring resonator above the ground plane. The proposed antenna can achieves a wide bandwidth from 2.9-11 GHz with the dual notched bands centred at 5.25 GHz and 5.8 GHz....

Simplicity, transmission rate, and bit error rate (BER) performance are three major concerns for ultra-wideband (UWB) systems. The main advantage of existing pulse-position modulation (PPM) schemes is simplicity, but their BER performance is poorer than that of an on-off-keying (OOK) modulation scheme, and their transmission rate is lower than that of an OOK scheme. In this research project, I ...

Abstract Ultra wideband (UWB) communication technology is a that uses very short time scale to transmit information. It has the advantages of high transmission rate, low power consumption, and good privacy. In this paper, basic principle UWB briefly described, several common technologies are emphatically expounded, characteristics each their disadvantages compared. At same time, article focuses...

A reconfigurable impulse radio ultra-wideband (UWB) pulse generator for various UWB shapes (e.g., monocycle, doublet, and triplet pulses) based on a nonlinear optical loop mirror (NOLM) and differential detection is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The proposed approach can be used with different modulation formats and may be suitable for implementation in future low-cost, high-speed, ...

The application of ultra-wideband (UWB) technology to low-cost short-range communications presents unique challenges to the communications engineer. The impact of the US FCC’s regulations and the characteristics of the low-power UWB propagation channels are explored, and their effects on UWB hardware design are illustrated. This tutorial introduction includes references to more detailed explora...

Research in the design of ultra-wideband (UWB) radio systems suggests di erent kinds of signal design criteria. After an introduction to UWB radio, a variety of sequence design problems, motivated by UWB system constraints, will be presented. Design for time-hopping, for spectral atness, for rapid acquisition, and for multiple access will be discussed, and some sample designs will be presented.

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.

The aim of this document it to present an overview of some recent research activities on ultra–wideband (UWB) channel modeling. Compared to models introduced in DRB1.2, recent research was focused on more sophisticated tools to model UWB channels, like information theoretic arguments. Physical modeling of UWB channels was also investigated. Reference D.xx.xx Issue n.m 4 November 2006 507325 NEW...