Wideband Signal Transmission for Energy-Aware Wireless Communications

Shinsuke HARA  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E88-A   No.11   pp.3072-3075
Publication Date: 2005/11/01
Online ISSN: 
DOI: 10.1093/ietfec/e88-a.11.3072
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: INVITED PAPER (Special Section on Wide Band Systems)
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Keyword: 
ultra wide band,  impulse radio,  

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Summary: 
In this paper, we discuss the role of physical (PHY) layer in realization of energy-aware wireless communication systems. With an energy consumption model for a wireless link between a transmitter and a receiver, we discuss a dominant factor to reduce energy consumption and show that, to reduce energy consumption, we should adopt an energy-efficient circuit architecture and modulation/detection scheme, even allowing a little degradation of packet error rate. Finally, we show that wide band signal transmission has a potential to realize not only high data rate transmission but also low energy consumption in wireless communication systems.