Radio communications via channels already occupied by conventional telecommunication systems can be established only by Ultra-WideBand (UWB) radio where the spectrum of transmitted signal covers an ultra-wide frequency band. The power spectral density (psd) of transmitted UWB signal is extremely low and does not cause any noticeable interference in the conventional telecommunication systems. Th...

Ultra-wideband (UWB) is an appealing transmission technology for short-range, bandwidth demanded wireless communications. With the data rate of several hundred megabits per second, UWB demonstrates great potential in supporting multimedia streams such as high-definition television (HDTV), voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), and console gaming in office or home networks, known as the wireless p...

With the ambitious aim to exploit the specific advantages of ultra-wideband (UWB) radio sensors for medical applications the project ultraMEDIS has been designed. The project focuses on the combination of UWB radar with magnetic resonance imaging, UWB radar based breast cancer detection, identification of various physiological signatures and the development of appropriate UWB antennas to accomp...

The optimal receiver for an ultra-wideband transmitted reference (UWB TR) system in a single user multipath environment is derived, based on knowledge of channel properties. The performances of this optimal receiver and other crosscorrelation receivers are analyzed and compared. The usual crosscorrelation receiver which is often used in UWB TR systems is shown to be suboptimal. In addition, an ...

This paper, describes a novel technique that detects a driver’s state using Ultra Wide Band(UWB) radar. UWB radar can measure both human vital signs and movement simultaneously with just one device. It is an improvement on existing Driver State Monitoring(DSM) systems because is much cheaper and lighter. And UWB radar can be used all day and night in all weather conditions without contacting th...

A compact microstrip-fed antenna with dual notched bands is proposed. First, a simple basic configuration is presented for Ultra Wide Band (UWB) applications and then the dual band notched structure is extended from the UWB one. The basic structure of the UWB antenna consists of a simple square radiating patch and a ground plane with a wide square slot on back of the substrate. A semi-circle sh...

An ultra-wideband (UWB) self-complementary planar bow-tie antenna (SCPBTA) is proposed. The antenna consists of a printed conical horn-shaped (CHS) radiator and a counterpart CHS slot etched on a rectangular ground plane. The printed CHS radiator is connected directly to the 50Ω microstrip line by bending the end portion of the feed line. As a result, the antenna has a simple structure which do...

Power patterns in the frequency domain are usually used to describe the antenna performance in narrowband communication systems; however, they are not sufficient for ultra wideband (UWB) antennas in wideband communication systems. In this paper, energy pattern and energy gain are introduced to describe the performance of UWB antennas. Numerical simulations and measurements are used to demonstra...

A novel two layered UWB antenna is proposed and designed to resonate at the full range of UWB frequencies’ spectrums from 3.1 GHz up to 10.6 GHz, well below -14.0dB reference levels of return loss. The size of the UWB antenna is small, with width of 31.0 mm and length of 25.0 mm, and the two layers of FR4 board thickness are 0.5 mm (top layer) and 1.6 mm (bottom layer).The antenna radiates omni...

Ultra-wideband (UWB) communication techniques have attracted a great interest in both academia and industry in the past few years for applications in short-range wireless mobile systems. This is due to the potential advantages of UWB transmissions such as low power, high rate, immunity to multipath propagation, less complex transceiver hardware, and low interference. However, tremendous R&D eff...