Localization via ultra-wideband radios: a look at positioning aspects for future sensor networks

S Gezici, Z Tian, GB Giannakis… - IEEE signal …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
UWB technology provides an excellent means for wireless positioning due to its high
resolution capability in the time domain. Its ability to resolve multipath components makes it …

Ultra-wideband communications: an idea whose time has come

L Yang, GB Giannakis - IEEE signal processing magazine, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultra-wideband (UWB) radio is a fast emerging technology with many unique attractive
features that promotes major advances in wireless communications, networking, radar …

Advanced wireless networks: 4G technologies

S Glisic, JP Makela - 2006 IEEE Ninth International Symposium …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Within the wide range of issues related to 4G wireless networks, due to the scope of the
ISSTA conference, in this presentation we highlight some segments of wireless networks …

Accurate evaluation of multiple-access performance in TH-PPM and TH-BPSK UWB systems

B Hu, NC Beaulieu - IEEE Transactions on communications, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A characteristic function method is proposed for precisely calculating the bit-error probability
of time-hopping (TH) ultra-wideband (UWB) systems with multiple-access interference in an …

Designing time-hopping ultrawide bandwidth receivers for multiuser interference environments

NC Beaulieu, DJ Young - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The multiple-user interference (MUI) in time-hopped impulse-radio ultrawide bandwidth
(UWB) systems is impulse-like and poorly approximated by a Gaussian distribution …

α-stable interference modeling and Cauchy receiver for an IR-UWB ad hoc network

H El Ghannudi, L Clavier, N Azzaoui… - IEEE Transactions …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper we investigate ad hoc networks based on impulse radio ultra wideband. Due to
multiple access, the interference distribution is not Gaussian. One important reason for …

UWB receiver designs based on a Gaussian-Laplacian noise-plus-MAI model

NC Beaulieu, S Niranjayan - IEEE Transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A more appropriate statistical model for the multiple access interference than the generally
used Gaussian approximation is proposed to reflect the heavy-tailed nature of the multiple …

Impulsive noise modeling and robust receiver design

L Clavier, GW Peters, F Septier, I Nevat - EURASIP Journal on Wireless …, 2021 - Springer
Interference is an important limitation in many communication systems. It has been shown in
many situations that the popular Gaussian approximation is not adequate and interference …

A GLRT approach to data-aided timing acquisition in UWB radios-Part I: Algorithms

Z Tian, GB Giannakis - IEEE transactions on Wireless …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Realizing the great potential of impulse radio communications depends critically on the
success of timing acquisition. To this end, optimum data-aided (DA) timing offset estimators …

Exact bit error rate analysis of TH-PPM UWB systems in the presence of multiple-access interference

B Hu, NC Beaulieu - IEEE Communications Letters, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new method is proposed for precisely calculating the bit error probability of a time-hopping
binary pulse position modulation ultra-wideband system with multiple access interference …