A Hybrid UWB Modulation Design Compatible for both Coherent and Transmit-Reference Receivers
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Summary, in English
In a pulsed UWB system, either coherent receivers or transmit-reference (TR) receivers can be used to demodulate the signals. For coherent receivers, which are typically based on a Rake Structure, the large number of resolvable multipaths is a major challenge for channel estimation and receiver complexity. TR receivers can effectively collect energy from all the received multipath components with much smaller complexity, but show reduced performance. Current modulation formats are tuned to either coherent or TR receivers, but cannot interoperate with both of them. In this paper, we propose an innovative modulation scheme that enables the useage of TR and coherent recievers in the same wireless network. The modulation allows demodulation by TR receivers, while at the same time enabling a coherent receiver to fully exploit all available signal energy, and actually to perform slightly better (by 1.8 dB) than a coherent receiver working with conventional BPSK modulation; this additional gain can be interpreted as a coding gain of a trellis-coded modulation scheme. The scheme thus allows the network designers to trade off performance vs. complexity in the receivers, while allowing a uniform signaling (modulation) scheme for all transmitters.
Publishing year
2006
Language
English
Pages
4741-4745
Publication/Series
[Host publication title missing]
Document type
Conference paper
Publisher
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Topic
- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
Conference name
IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2006
Conference date
2006-06-11 - 2006-06-15
Conference place
Istanbul, Turkey
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 1-4244-0355-3