Polarity reception for IR-UWB in wireless fading channel

Abstract:
Detection performance of Impulse Radio Ultra wideband IR-UWB wireless communication was evaluated in noisy and dispersive channel environment. A polarity reception method was introduced which sets reference phase and does phase detection in relation to it. Simulation results confirm that the adopted detection scheme can achieve a packet error rate of 0.01 for SNR as low as -5 dB in fading channel even at high data rate 27.24 Mb/s. To the best knowledge of the authors, it is the first ever research work introducing results of polarity detection in IR-UWB systems. The wireless IR-UWB being considered here was implemented and shown to be fully functional. Thus the results reflect real practical system.