UWB (Ultra Wide Band) technology is a reliable transmission scheme for wireless communication with high data rates. UWB is defined as signals with fractional band width more than 20% of its central frequency or as signals with bandwidth more than 500MHZ. UWB can be characterized with ultra-short duration pulses called monopulses which has excellent immunity in interference from sensitivity or m...

To enhance the performance, various methods have been applied to design the antenna. Still the scope remains unchanged in antenna research. Antenna has a prime role in wireless communication. In recent years, researchers have focused on improvement of the UWB antennas. UWB has attractive merits compact size, low cost, resistant to severe multipath and jamming, ease of fabrication, and good omni...

Chipless ultra-wideband (UWB) has been proposed as a low-cost alternative for radiofrequency identification (RFID). In this paper, a comprehensible theoretical introduction to time-domain operation of a UWB RFID tag is described, and a circuit model is proposed. For commercial applications low-cost RFID readers are demanded. To this end, this paper addresses the measurement of time-coded UWB ch...

Ultra-wideband (UWB) technology has gone through some revolutionary changes this year, including the legalization of the technology in the US for imaging systems, vehicular radar systems, and communications and measurement systems. The allocation of 7.5 GHz worth of new, unlicensed spectrum that can be used for communications and measurement techniques, in particular, has sparked a renewed inte...

A novel planar ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna with triple-notched bands using triple-mode stub loaded resonator (SLR) is presented in this paper. The basic UWB antenna consists of a circularshaped radiating element, a 50Ω microstrip feed line, and a partially truncated ground plane. Then, the resonance properties of the SLR are studied. Results reveal that the multiple-mode property of the SLR ca...

In this paper, the performance of DS-UWB and THUWB for a single-user link are compared for a data rate of 100 Mbps using the newly proposed, realistic UWB channel model from IEEE P802.15. The performance of suboptimal, fractionally spaced (FS), coherent Rake receivers with a pulse-matched filter is numerically evaluated with two channel estimation algorithms. DS-UWB and TH-UWB with antipodal mo...

In this paper, the channel estimation techniques for multiband (MB) OFDM ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless communications are investigated. By combining orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) with multi-band, the MB-OFDM systems can capture multipath energy more efficiently than single-band directsequence UWB (DS-UWB). However, most researches for UWB channel estimation are focused on th...

approved: _____________________________________________________ Huaping Liu Ultra-wideband (UWB) radio is the transmission of data using an extremely wide bandwidth and very low power spectral density. In this thesis, the merits and challenges of UWB architectures versus conventional narrowband architectures will be compared. Pulsed UWB systems can be implemented with very simple architectures....

The successful realization of a Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) requires innovative solutions to meet the energy consumption budget of the autonomous sensor nodes. The radio interface is a major challenge, since its power consumption must be reduced below 100μW (energy scavenging limit). The emerging Ultra-WideBand (UWB) technology shows strong advantages in reaching this target. First, most ...

Impulse Radio (IR)-Ultra Wideband (UWB) enables accurate ranging due to very short duration pulses. Therefore, UWB may provide accurate positioning capability. In order to relax the complexity in circuit implementation, UWB system with low resolution analog digital converters (ADCs) has been investigated. In this paper, the accuracy of UWB positioning with comparators is investigated through ex...