Performance Analysis of UWB Channels for Wireless Personal Area Networks |
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Authors: | C Ramesh V Vaidehi |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Electronics, MIT campus, Anna University, Chennai, 600044, India |
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Abstract: | Ultra-wide band (UWB) communication is one of the most promising technology for high data rate networks over short-range communication.
The ultra-wide bandwidth offers pulses with very short duration that provides frequency diversity and multipath resolution.
Ultra-wide band (UWB) channels raise new effects in the receiver, the amplitude fading statistics being different compared
to the conventional narrow band wireless channels. This review paper focuses on modeling of ultra-wide band channels, especially
for simulation of personal area networks and also discusses the benefits, application potential and technical challenges in
wideband communication. The concept of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) has recently been applied in wireless
communication systems due to its high data rate transmission capability with high bandwidth efficiency and its robustness
to multi-path delay. UWB OFDM communication was proposed for physical layer in the IEEE 802.15.3a standard which covers wideband
communication in wireless personal area networks. Since the channel model for multicarrier UWB communication is different
from that of plain ultra-wide band channel, a novel modification method in UWB channel model is proposed with specific center
frequency and multipath resolution. Moreover, dynamic channel estimation is necessary before demodulation of UWB OFDM signals
since the radio channel is time varying and frequency selective for wideband systems. The performance of the proposed method
is statistically analyzed using LS and MMSE based channel estimation methods. |
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Keywords: | channel estimation UWB OFDM multipath LS MMSE |
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