SC-UWB: A low-complexity UWB technology for portable devices

  • Zhenyu Xiao*
  • , Ning Ge
  • , Yukui Pei
  • , Depeng Jin
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Ultra Wideband (UWB) technology has attracted widespread attention all over the world because of potential applications in high-rate short-range communications. The existing UWB technologies, e.g., the direct-sequence UWB (DS-UWB) and the multi-band orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MB-OFDM), have high complexity, which results in high power consumption and cost, and limits its marketing. In this paper we propose and introduce a single carrier UWB (SC-UWB) technology based on a deep investigation of the existing UWB technologies. The proposed SC-UWB technology has much lower complexity, and aims at low-power portable applications. Also, we show some experimental results on the SC-UWB technology and present the fabricated SC-UWB chip. The measured results show that the SC-UWB can achieve good performance in a practical office environment, and the die size can be reduced by about 41.88% compared to that of the published MB-OFDM chips.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2011 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Communications and Computing, ICSPCC 2011
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes
Event2011 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Communications and Computing, ICSPCC 2011 - Xi'an, China
Duration: 14 Sep 201116 Sep 2011

Publication series

Name2011 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Communications and Computing, ICSPCC 2011

Conference

Conference2011 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Communications and Computing, ICSPCC 2011
Country/TerritoryChina
CityXi'an
Period14/09/1116/09/11

Keywords

  • DS-UWB
  • MB-OFDM
  • SC-UWB
  • UWB

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