O. Cetin, Hakki Nazh, Ridvan Gurcan, Hilmi Öztürk, Hilal Guneren, Yasin Yelkovan, Mustafa Cayir, H. Çelebi, H. Partal
{"title":"An experimental study of high precision TOA based UWB positioning systems","authors":"O. Cetin, Hakki Nazh, Ridvan Gurcan, Hilmi Öztürk, Hilal Guneren, Yasin Yelkovan, Mustafa Cayir, H. Çelebi, H. Partal","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340508","url":null,"abstract":"An ultra-wide band (UWB) localization study by developing a Time-of-Arrival (TOA) algorithm is presented and experimentally verified. The technique and test setup presented in this work offers an easy to understand localization method utilizing the UWB technology. The challenges in designing UWB RF hardware and creating an effective algorithm for the UWB system have been overcome resulting in an accurate location estimation. The proposed system is promising to achieve high precision location estimation system.","PeriodicalId":260071,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband","volume":"15 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":"126766064","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":"Analysis and design of X-band Reflectarray antenna using 3-D EM-based Artificial Neural Network model","authors":"Selahattin Nesil, F. Güneş, Gokhan Kaya","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340448","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents analysis and design of the X-band Reflectarray using a three-dimensional EM simulation based- Multilayer Perceptron Neural Network (MLP NN) model. For this purpose, firstly training and validation data for the reflection phase characteristics of a unit element is obtained by the 3-D Computer Simulation Technology Microwave Studio (CST MWS) depending on the geometrical parameters, substrate and frequency using the H-wall waveguide simulator. Thereafter, the MLP NN is validated utilizing the CST MWS test data. Comparison of the reconstructed data with the target data shows that MLP can be used as a very efficient technique to predict the reflection phases of reflectarray. The MLP NN modeling is applied to the minkowski and circular ring shaped radiators and their reflection characteristics are obtained within the continuous domain of the geometrical parameters, substrate and frequency. Some typical reflection phase characteristics are given. Furthermore, a minkowski reflectarray of 5 × 5 on Taconic RF-35 with εr =3.5 and tan δ =0.0018 is designed and its radiation patterns are simulated by using CST MWS. The bandwidth characteristics of the array are also observed within the X-band frequency range.","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":"126531455","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 study on RAKE reception using multicarrier template waveform for UWB-IR system","authors":"J. Ono, Takuya Tsunoda, K. Ohno, M. Itami","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340434","url":null,"abstract":"Frequency selective fading that is caused by the multipath becomes a problem in broad band communication like a UWB (Ultra Wideband) system. This paper discusses the RAKE reception technique by using the multicarrier template waveform in the UWB-IR (Impulse Radio) system to compensate the influence of multipath. The template waveform in the UWB receiver is modified to the multicarrier pulse, because the power spectrum density can be controlled to weight for the sub-band pulses. The BER (Bit Error Rate) performance is improved, because more powerful path can be detected in each sub-band pulse of the multicarrier template waveform and the correlation values of the RAKE branches can be combined efficiently.","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":"130420472","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":"Energy detection with optimal symbol constellation for M-PAM in UWB fading channels","authors":"R. Moorfeld, Yun-teng Lu, A. Finger","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340446","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents optimal symbol constellations for M-PAM with energy detection receiver in fading channels. A significant gain in the symbol error probability can be achieved for medium to large degrees of freedom. We also present closed-form solutions for the symbol error probability in flat, approximated frequency selective and frequency selective fading channels. Independent and correlated fading has been considered. The assumption of Gaussian probability density functions based on the central limited theorem has not been used, because of the inaccuracy for low and medium degrees of freedom.","PeriodicalId":260071,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband","volume":"14 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":"130739242","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":"Estimation of the energy detector performances on UWB channel based on the analysis with AWGN channel","authors":"Stephane Mebaley Ekome, G. Baudoin, M. Villegas, J. Schwoerer","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340428","url":null,"abstract":"The Ultra Wide Band (UWB) channel of Body Area Networks (BAN) is characterized by its various paths containing signal energy. The performance of an energy detection receiver (ED) is determined by its integration period which must be defined appropriately to aggregate enough energy, while avoiding the collection of too much noise. A short integration period scaled at the impulse time is a good way to optimize the ED performances in UWB communications. However, because of the variety of situations encountered, numerous channel realizations must be considered in simulation for statistical validity. We must therefore wait long to get the simulation results. The work presented hereafter aims at proposing a novel method for evaluating the ED performance with a dense multipath channel. The approach developed explains the way we can use the theoretical analysis of the ED performance on additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) in order to estimate and generalize performance on UWB channel. The method can be extended to communications in a multipath channel.","PeriodicalId":260071,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband","volume":"98 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":"131889769","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":"Integrated ultra-wideband hardware for MIMO sensing using pn-sequence approach","authors":"M. Kmec, M. Helbig, J. Sachs, P. Rauschenbach","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340445","url":null,"abstract":"The article deals with SiGe based hardware for new, flexible ultra-wideband MIMO sensing purposes using pn-sequence approach. Introduced hardware serves as future platform for scientific investigations in the complex field of ultrawideband (UWB) applications. We discuss the design aspects and prototype evaluation of the single chip M-sequence based sensor head as well as realization particularities of the transmit- and receive-front-ends for applications with direct contact measurements. The front-ends are small antenna units with active customized baluns.","PeriodicalId":260071,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband","volume":"106 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":"132219429","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":"Compressive sampling based multiple symbol differential detection for UWB IR signals","authors":"S. Gishkori, G. Leus, V. Lottici","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340501","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a compressive sampling (CS) based multiple symbol differential detector is proposed, using the principle of a generalized likelihood ratio test (GLRT). The proposed detector works on the compressed samples directly, thereby avoiding the reconstruction step and thus resulting in a reduced implementation complexity along with a reduced sampling rate (much below the Nyquist rate). We also propose the compressed sphere decoder (CSD) to resolve the detection of multiple symbols. Our proposed detector is valid for scenarios where the measurement matrices are the same as well as where they are different for each received symbol.","PeriodicalId":260071,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband","volume":"81 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":"134119364","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":"Efficient 3-dimensional imaging algorithm using PI extraction based RPM for quasi-far field UWB radars","authors":"S. Kidera, T. Kirimoto","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340397","url":null,"abstract":"Ultra-wide band (UWB) pulse radar has a definite advantage over optical ranging techniques in harsh optical environments, such as a dark smog or strong backlight. In security or rescue situations with blurry visibility, it is particularly promising for identifying human bodies. One of the most promising approaches for this type of application is the recently proposed range points migration (RPM) method, which is beneficial for non-parametric imaging and is robust in noisy or heavily interference situations. However, the original RPM requires a discretization of the direction of arrival (DOA) variables in its search operation. The resulting coarse discretization seriously degrades the imaging accuracy, particularly for 3-dimensional problems and quasi-far field observations (defined as more than 5 wavelengths). Then, in this approach, there is a severe trade-off between the amount of computation and accuracy. To overcome this difficulty, this paper proposes a more efficient RPM algorithm, where the extraction of the point of intersection (PI) of spheres is adopted. A distinct advantage of this method is that the accuracy is basically invariant to the observation range when avoiding the above discretization. Numerical simulations prove that our proposed RPM remarkably reduces the computation complexity while retaining imaging accuracy.","PeriodicalId":260071,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband","volume":"150 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":"134184118","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":"Channel capacity related power allocation for ultra-wide bandwidth sensor networks with application in object detection","authors":"G. Alirezaei","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340424","url":null,"abstract":"This publication analyzes the power allocation problem for a distributed wireless sensor network which is based on ultra-wide bandwidth communication technology and is used to perform object detection. In the considered scenarios the presence or the absence of an object is observed by the sensors independently. Due to noisy communication channels, the interfered observations are fused into a reliable global decision in order to increase the overall detection probability. An approach based on information theory, that aims at maximization of channel capacity, is employed. It allows for analytically described allocation of total given power to the sensors and, thereby, optimizes the overall detection probability. Furthermore, we demonstrate the feasibility of object detection by using the introduced power allocation method in ultra-wide bandwidth signaling systems.","PeriodicalId":260071,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband","volume":"26 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":"127691916","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":"Increasing the bandwidth of patch antennas","authors":"S. Imeci","doi":"10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340392","url":null,"abstract":"A wideband (23.3%) microstrip patch antenna is designed and simulated. Radiating elements are symmetric and non-symmetrically distributed slits around the outer sections of the patch antenna. Design steps and the various trials on the geometry of the patch are explained in detail and presented in figures. Excitation is a single probe feed. The antenna can be used for 3G Wireless Networks in UMTS Band and IEEE S-band.","PeriodicalId":260071,"journal":{"name":"2012 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband","volume":"42 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":"115987014","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}