DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF AN IMPULSE RADIO ULTRAWIDEBAND MULTIUSER TRANSMISSION SCHEME FOR WIRELESS PERSONAL AREA NETWORKS APPLICATIONS

A scalable Impulse Radio (IR) Ultrawideband (UWB) air interface is proposed for Low Data Rate (LDR) Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) applications. Reducedcomplexity transmitter and receiver designs are also proposed. The performance of the proposed IR-UWB multiuser system is investigated in PAN propagation environments. Various different receiver detection techniques are compared and it is shown that in the case of a multipath channel, the Windowed Signal Multiplication (WSM) scheme outperforms other potential detectors based on pulse template generation