Nicoló Decarli, Francesco Guidi, A. Conti, D. Dardari
{"title":"Interference and clock drift effects in UWB RFID systems using backscatter modulation","authors":"Nicoló Decarli, Francesco Guidi, A. Conti, D. Dardari","doi":"10.1109/icuwb.2012.6340402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/icuwb.2012.6340402","url":null,"abstract":"UWB backscatter modulation paves the way to next generation RFID systems. This solution overcomes the main limitations of the current UHF technology in terms of robustness to multipath fading and localization capability. On the other hand, the design of UWB RFID systems presents several new aspects to deal with such as clutter, multi-user interference, and clock drift. This paper illustrates some solutions able to guarantee reliable communication using semi-passive tags jointly with UWB backscatter modulation in the presence of implementation impairments.","PeriodicalId":260071,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125944171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ultra-wide stopband in a compact low pass filter using stepped impedance resonators and novel techniques","authors":"Luke Murphy, M. Yazdani, E. Arvas","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340430","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340430","url":null,"abstract":"The design procedure of a compact ultra-wideband (UWB) stepped impedance resonator (SIR) low pass filter, is presented in this paper. A SIR LPF with 7 GHz cutoff frequency miniaturized by meander line technique is designed and it is shown that offsetting the stepped impedance resonators, as well as indenting the tap location greatly improve rejection bandwidth. Offsetting input lines further maximizes rejection bandwidth. The proposed filter is simulated in Sonnet EM software, fabricated, and tested on a high dielectric ceramic. The results show an improved stopband performance compared with similar topologies with a drastic size reduction in the filter.","PeriodicalId":260071,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband","volume":"68 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125964303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A miniaturized ultra-wideband microstrip filter Using interdigital capacitive loading and interresonator tapped-in coupling","authors":"Andrew V Martin, M. Sabbagh, B. Mohajer-Iravani","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340486","url":null,"abstract":"Design of miniaturized wideband filter in combline configuration using interresonator taps and interdigitally-coupled capacitive loading is described. The design is based on increasing the effective capacitance of the original quarter-wavelength combline resonator by engineering the loading interdigital capacitance at the open end of resonator, thus achieving the same resonant frequency by using a shorter physical length. The resonator structure is designed to confine the electric field in a smaller real estate to decrease losses and coupling interference with adjacent components. The filter is physically compact and has wide passband. An ultra-wideband UHF filter having bandwidth more than 20% is designed using full-wave solving software and fabricated in microstrip technology. Experimental results are in good agreement with the theoretical and simulated results.","PeriodicalId":260071,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129855794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A reconfigurable impulse radio transmitter","authors":"A. Ott, C. Eisner, T. Eibert","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340465","url":null,"abstract":"To investigate impulse radio (IR) communication transceivers, bit error rate (BER) measurements are typically performed by connecting an arbitrary waveform generator and a digitizing oscilloscope. In this paper a reconfigurable software defined radio (SDR) transmitter specifically designed for IR communication tests is presented. The prototype offers the possibility to transmit arbitrary 4-ary modulated impulses with 1 GHz bandwidth over four channels in the frequency range from 6 GHz-10 GHz. For generation of intermediate frequency (IF) signals a subsampling concept with a multi-Nyquist digital to analog converter (DAC) and a field programmable gate array (FPGA) has been employed. Pseudo-coherent signals are synthesized at radio frequency (RF) by utilizing a mixer with a local oscillator (LO) frequency locked to the LO of the DAC. A comparison of theoretically derived signals and measurements shows that both are in close agreement.","PeriodicalId":260071,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130062237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stephane Mebaley Ekome, G. Baudoin, M. Villegas, J. Schwoerer
{"title":"Narrowband interference mitigation in UWB communication with energy detector","authors":"Stephane Mebaley Ekome, G. Baudoin, M. Villegas, J. Schwoerer","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340470","url":null,"abstract":"Ultra wideband (UWB) is a reliable candidate for supporting a physical layer in Body Area Networks (BAN) and because of their wideband, UWB systems can have their performance degraded due to the interference from narrowband transmission. Methods must be developed to protect UWB systems that are exposed to this negative impact of the narrowband interference (NBI). Most proposed solutions have been developed for coherent and transmitted-reference receivers but a very few of these principles are eligible with the noncoherent energy detector (ED) receiver. The work presented thereafter aims at proposing a novel method to identify and mitigate the narrowband interference in ultra wideband transmissions. We use an efficient algorithm with a modified but still simple energy detector, and the performance of the method is evaluated by means of computer simulations.","PeriodicalId":260071,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130471423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Orlando, K. Groves, A. Mattamana, T. Quach, P. Watson, L. Johnson, P. Wyatt, C. Chen, C. Chen, R. Drangmeister, C. Keast
{"title":"X-Band receiver front-end in fully depleted SOI technology","authors":"P. Orlando, K. Groves, A. Mattamana, T. Quach, P. Watson, L. Johnson, P. Wyatt, C. Chen, C. Chen, R. Drangmeister, C. Keast","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340507","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a wide band/high dynamic range receiver implemented in a 0.18-μm fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator (FDSOI) CMOS technology. The system demonstration is a single conversion architecture with RF input at X-Band and IF output at S-Band. The receiver yielded 20-21.5 dB conversion gain, 5.6-6 dB noise figure, and 16.7 dBm OIP3 across a 600-MHz instantaneous bandwidth at S-Band operation.","PeriodicalId":260071,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134599833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coexistence of IEEE Std 802.15.6TM-2012 UWB-PHY with other UWB systems","authors":"Marco Hernandez, R. Miura","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340496","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340496","url":null,"abstract":"The paper describes a coexistence study of IEEE Std 802.15.6-2012 UWB devices with other UWB systems, in particular IEEE Std 802.15.4a-2007 (pico-nets) devices and IEEE 802.15.4f-2012 (RFID) devices. The recently published IEEE Std 802.15.6™-2012 includes IR-UWB and FM-UWB technologies. The IR-UWB transceivers for BANs are based on the transmission of a single and relative long pulse per symbol (new paradigm in UWB) or a concatenation or burst of short pulses per symbol (legacy), while FM-UWB transceivers are based on the concatenation of a CP-2FSK signal and a wideband FM signal. Thus, coexistence between UWB devices becomes very important for reliable operation in medical applications.","PeriodicalId":260071,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband","volume":"738 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133524290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparative study of various antenna selection techniques under MIMO for multiuser DS-CDMA based OFDM System for UWB communication","authors":"H. Soni","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340412","url":null,"abstract":"The use of Multiple Element Antenna (MEA) at transmitter and receiver side provides possibility of significant rise in the throughput of a fading channel. Recent research shows that use of multiple antenna elements improves the performance when large number of pair of transmit-receive antennas are available from which subset of antenna is selected based on the channel realization. In this paper we have considered the MEA system for improving the capacity of system. We have combined MEA system with DS-CDMA based OFDM System for Ultra wideband (UWB) communications and ensured the performance. We have considered DS-CDMA based OFDM system model with Multiuser Interference (MUI) and without MUI. Here, we have considered the different antenna selection techniques for improving performance of the system. In this paper we have considered the optimal and suboptimal antenna selection criterion with DS-CDMA based OFDM system.","PeriodicalId":260071,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134112209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ultra-wideband (UWB) bandpass filter with sharp selectivity and wide upper stopband","authors":"He Zhu, Q. Chu","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340441","url":null,"abstract":"A compact quadruple-mode ultra-wideband (UWB) bandpass filter with sharp selectivity and extremely wide upper stopband is proposed in this paper, using a multi-stage stepped-impedance resonator, two open-circuited ends and a pair of high-low impedance stubs. The characteristics of the proposed multimode resonator are analyzed by simulation, demonstrating that the first four resonant modes can be appropriately located in the desired passband and other resonant modes in the upper stopband can be suppressed. To improve the skirt selectivity and out-of-band performance, two identical high-low impedance stubs are introduced into the design, without changing any resonant characteristic of the filter. Finally, the improved filter is fabricated and measured, and simulated and measured results are in good agreement to show that the proposed filter has a sharp selectivity with a -21.5 dB rejection stopband extended to over 30 GHz.","PeriodicalId":260071,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128285511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Standard gain UWB planar horn antennas","authors":"H. Schantz, Jae Jeon","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340489","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340489","url":null,"abstract":"Horns are an important class of UWB antenna. This paper presents a compact planar horn design well-suited to serve as a gain reference or UWB measurement instrument. The design was made both compact and well-matched by introducing a right angle turn in a tapered balun feed structure. This paper describes some of the design challenges in translating numerical modeling into a successful implementation. Finally, we implemented the design in two different scale factors: a 30cm × 30cm Model 860A horn for use from 800MHz to beyond 6GHz and a 10cm × 10 cm Model 310C horn optimized for use from 3-10GHz.","PeriodicalId":260071,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130925076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}