Selective Signal Combining for Effective BER Improvement in Noncoherent IR-UWB Systems

Jaewoon KIM  Sekwon KIM  Wonjin SUNG  Yoan SHIN  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E91-A   No.11   pp.3197-3200
Publication Date: 2008/11/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1337
DOI: 10.1093/ietfec/e91-a.11.3197
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section LETTER (Special Section on Wideband Systems)
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Keyword: 
UWB,  signal combining,  noncoherent receiver,  2PPM,  

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Summary: 
In order to effectively improve the BER (Bit Error Rate) performance of noncoherent IR-UWB (Impulse Radio Ultra Wide Band) systems utilizing 2PPM (Binary Pulse Position Modulation), we propose a selective signal combining scheme which performs selective combination of received signals by estimating the SNR (Signal-to-Noise Ratio) of the energies during the pulse width interval.