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Estimating Angle-of-Arrival of UWB Cluster signals in an Indoor-to-Outdoor Wireless Communication  

Lee Yong-Up (한림대학교 정보통신공학부 전자공학 전공 통신시스템 연구실)
Seo Young-Jun (한림대학교 정보통신공학부 전자공학 전공 통신시스템 연구실)
Choi Gin-Kyu (홍익대학교 전자전기컴퓨터공학부 전자공학)
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The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences / v.31, no.5C, 2006 , pp. 556-561 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this study, an ultra-wideband(UWB) signal model is considered to estimate the angle-of-arrivals(AOAs) of clusters in an UWB indoor-to-outdoor communication environment having random angle spreads. A conventional AOA algorithm for UWB estimates the directions of both clusters and multipath signals together and so has complex estimation procedure. In order to solve that problem, we propose a new clustered AOA estimation algorithm. The estimation technique based a well-known MUSIC algorithm is proposed and the estimates of the AOA on received clusters are obtained using the proposed technique. The proposed model and estimation technique are verified through computer simulations.
Keywords
UWB; Indoor-to-Outdoor wireless communication; Cluster; Angle Spread; Antenna array; Angle-of-Arrival Estimation; MUSIC Estimation Technique;
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