• ETRI Journal
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.11-21
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• 2010

A novel ultra-wideband (UWB) transceiver structure is presented to be used in wireless body area networks (WBANs). In the proposed structure, a data channel and a control channel are combined into a single transmission signal. In the signal, a modulation method mixing pulse position modulation and pulse amplitude modulation is proposed. A mathematical framework calculating the power spectrum density of the proposed pulse-based signal evaluates its coexistence with conventional radio systems. The transceiver structure is discussed, and the receiving performance is investigated in the additive white Gaussian noise channel. It is demonstrated that the proposed scheme is easier to match to the UWB emission mask than conventional UWB systems. The proposed scheme achieves the data rate requirement of WBAN; the logical control channel achieves better receiving performance than the logical data channel, which is useful for controlling and maintaining networks. The proposed scheme is also easy to implement.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.501-509
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• 2012

This paper proposes a joint timing synchronization, channel estimation, and data detection for the impulse radio ultra-wideband systems. The proposed timing synchronizer consists of coarse and fine timing estimation. The synchronizer discovers synchronization points in two stages and performs adaptive threshold based on the maximum pulse averaging and maximum (MAX-PA) method for more precise synchronization. Then, iterative channel estimation is performed based on the discovered synchronization points, and data are detected using the selective rake (S-RAKE) detector employing maximal ratio combining. The proposed synchronizer produces two signals-the start signal for channel estimation and the start signal for start frame delimiter (SFD) detection that detects the packet synchronization signal. With the proposed synchronization, channel estimation, and SFD detection, an S-RAKE receiver with binary pulse position modulation binary phase-shift keying modulation was constructed. In addition, an IEEE 802.15.4a channel model was used for performance comparison. The comparison results show that the constructed receiver yields high performance close to perfect synchronization.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제23권10호
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• pp.1290-1297
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• 2019

본 논문에서는 ultra-wideband(UWB) 시스템에서 합성곱 신경망(CNN)을 이용한 거리 추정 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법은 UWB 신호를 이용하여 송신기와 수신기 사이의 거리를 추정하기 위하여 수신신호의 크기 샘플로 이루어진 1차원 벡터를 2차원 행렬로 재구성하며, 이 2차원 행렬로부터 합성곱 신경망 회귀를 이용하여 거리를 추정한다. IEEE 802.15.4a 표준의 UWB 실내 가시선 채널모델을 이용하여 수신신호를 생성하여 학습데이터를 만들며 합성곱 신경망 모델을 학습시킨다. 또한 실제 필드 시험을 통해 실내환경에서의 실험 데이터를 이용하여 거리추정 성능을 확인한다. 제안하는 기법은 기존의 문턱값 기반의 거리 추정 기법과의 성능비교도 수행하는데, 결과에 따르면 10m 거리에서 제안기법은 0.6m의 제곱근 평균 자승 에러를 보이는데 기존기법은 1.6m로 훨씬 큰 에러를 보인다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.365-373
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• 2003

This paper investigates the performance of M-ary pulse position modulation (PPM) multiuser ultra-wideband (UWB) communication systems in terms of symbol error rate (SER) over fading and additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. Based on Gaussian approximation for the multiple access interference, an expression for the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is derived for the UWB system. This expression is used to derive exact SER expressions for coherent UWB receivers. The effect of pulse selection on the SER of multiuser UWB system is studied. In addition to rectangular pulse, the 2nd derivative Gaussian waveform and Rayleigh pulses were considered. We show that the system capacity and/or SER performance can be significantly increased by using the monocycle pulse in fading channels.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.524-539
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• 2014

To investigate schemes of secret key generation from Ultra-wideband (UWB) channel, we study a statistical characterization of UWB outdoor channel for a campus playground scenario based on extensive measurements. Moreover, an efficient secret key generation mechanism exploiting multipath relative delay is developed, and verification of this algorithm is conducted in UWB Line-of-sight (LOS) outdoor channels. For the first time, we compare key-mismatch probability of UWB indoor and outdoor environments. Simulation results demonstrate that the number of multipath proportionally affects key generation rate and key-mismatch probability. In comparison to the conventional method using received signal strength (RSS) as a common random source, our mechanism achieves better performance in terms of common secret bit generation. Simultaneously, security analysis indicates that the proposed scheme can still guarantee security even in the sparse outdoor physical environment free of many reflectors.

• 한국전자파학회지:전자파기술
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.11-19
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• 1992

본 연구에서는 초광대역증폭기를 설계하고자 GaAs MESFET 소신호 동가회로에 인덕터 피킹소자를 첨가하여 캐패시턴스의 영향을 감소시키는 주파수 피킹현상에 대하여 분석하였다. GaAs MESFET의 소신호 둥가회로의 전달함수로 부터 인턱터 피킹소자의 최적값을 유도하였으며, 매 우 균일이득을 갖는 귀환증폭모듈을 실현하였다. 실 주파수법에 의하여 입력과 출력단의 엄피던스정합회로를 설계하여 초광대역 마이크로파증폭기를 구현하였으며 컴퓨터 시률레이션에 의하여 셜계된 증폭기의 이득의 오차는 O.lGHz-12GHz에서 O.56dB의 매우 균일한 이득을 얻을 수 있었다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.194-204
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• 2006

This contribution focuses on the maximum likelihood (ML) noncoherent synchronization of multi-antenna transceivers working in faded environments and employing ultra-wideband impulse radio (UWB-IR) transmit technology. In particular, the Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) is derived for the general case of multiple input multiple output (MIMO) UWB-IR systems and used to compare the ultimate performance of three basic transmit schemes, thereinafter referred to as single input multiple output (SIMO), MIMO equal signaling (MIMO-ES), and MIMO orthogonal signaling (MIMO-OS) ones. Thus, the noncoherent ML synchronizer is developed for the better performing transmit scheme (i.e., the SIMO one) and its performance is evaluated under both signal acquisition and tracking operating conditions. The performance gain in the synchronization of UWB- IR signals arising by the utilization of the multi-antenna technology is also evaluated.

• 한국전자파학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전자파학회 2003년도 종합학술발표회 논문집 Vol.13 No.1
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• pp.229-233
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• 2003

In this paper we theoretically analyze the probability of error for M-ary pulse position modulation (PPM) ultra-wideband (UWB) multiple access system using Gaussian monopulse. The optimum detection of UWB signals using M-ary orthogonal PPM in additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) and multiple access interference (MAI) is considered, then receiver signal to noise power ratio (SNR) and upper bound fur the bit error rate (BER) are derived. Numerical results considering some practical parameters are presented.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.41-48
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 채널의 진폭 특성만을 고려한 실내 무선 페이딩 환경에서 PPM 변조된 UWB 통신 시스템의 채널 성능을 분석하였다. 페이딩 채널은 기존에 발표되었던 UWB 전파 실험을 통한 데이터를 바탕으로 Nakagami-m분포 모델을 이용하여 페이딩 지수 m에 따른 다양한 채널 환경을 고려하였다. 또한, 채널 부호화 기법으로써 강력한 에러 정정 능력을 가진 컨벌루션 부호화 기법을 적용함으로써 페이딩으로 인해 열화된 시스템 성능을 개선하였다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.460-463
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• 2010

This letter proposes an energy-detection-based non-data-aided weighted non-coherent receiver (NDA-WNCR) scheme for impulse radio ultra-wideband (IR-UWB) pulse-position modulated signals. Compared to the conventional WNCR, the optimal weights of the proposed NDA-WNCR are tremendously simplified as the maximum eigenvector of the IR-UWB signal energy sample autocorrelation matrix. The NDA-WNCR serves to blindly obtain the optimal weights and entirely circumvent the transmission of training symbols or channel estimation in practice. Analysis and simulation results verify that the bit error rate (BER) performance of the NDA-WNCR closely approaches the ideal BER of the conventional WNCRs.