Timing Acquisition of Ultra-wideband Signals in the Presence of Clock Frequency Offset

Author(s):  
Saeed Khalesehosseini ◽  
John Nielsen
2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1606-1616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio A. D'Amico ◽  
Lorenzo Taponecco ◽  
Umberto Mengali

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-148
Author(s):  
Abdelmadjid Maali ◽  
Geneviève Baudoin ◽  
Ammar Mesloub

In this paper, we propose a novel energy detection (ED) receiver architecture combined with time-of-arrival (TOA) estimation algorithm, compliant to the IEEE 802.15.4a standard. The architecture is based on double overlapping integrators and a sliding correlator. It exploits a series of ternary preamble sequences with perfect autocorrelation property. This property ensures coding gain, which allows an accurate estimation of power delay profile (PDP). To improve TOA estimation, the interpolation of PDP samples is proposed and the architecture is validated by using an ultra-wideband signals measurements platform. These measurements are carried out in line-of-sight and non-line-of-sight multipath environments. The experimental results show that the ranging performances obtained by the proposed architecture are higher than those obtained by the conventional architecture based on a single-integrator in both LOS and NLOS environments.


Information ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liu Jun ◽  
Luo Zhongqiang ◽  
Xiong Xingzhong

An important function of next-generation (5G) and beyond mobile communication systems is aim to provide thousand-fold capacity growth and to support high-speed data transmission up to several megabits per second. However, the research community and industries have to face a dilemma of power consumption and hardware design to satisfy the increasing communication requirements. For the purpose of improving the system cost, power consumption, and implementation complexity, a novel scheme of symbol timing and frequency offset estimation with low-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) based on an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing ultra-wideband (OFDM-UWB) system is proposed in this paper. In our work, we first verified the principle that the autocorrelation of the pseudo-noise (PN) sequences was not affected by low-resolution quantization. With the help of this property, the timing synchronization could be strongly implemented against the influence of low-resolution quantization. Then, the transmitted signal structure and low-resolution quantization scheme under the synchronization scheme were designed. Finally, a frequency offset estimation model with one-bit timing synchronization was established. Theoretical analysis and simulation results corroborate that the performance of the proposed scheme not only approximates to that of the full-resolution synchronization scheme, but also has lower power consumption and computational complexity.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muzaffer Kanaan ◽  
Memduh Suveren

Results about the problem of accurate ranging within the human body using ultra-wideband signals are shown. The ability to accurately measure the range between a sensor implanted in the human body and an external receiver can make a number of new medical applications such as better wireless capsule endoscopy, next-generation microrobotic surgery systems, and targeted drug delivery systems possible. The contributions of this paper are twofold. First, we propose two novel range estimators: one based on an implementation of the so-called CLEAN algorithm for estimating channel profiles and another based on neural networks. Second, we develop models to describe the statistics of the ranging error for both types of estimators. Such models are important for the design and performance analysis of localization systems. It is shown that the ranging error in both cases follows a heavy-tail distribution known as the Generalized Extreme Value distribution. Our results also indicate that the estimator based on neural networks outperforms the CLEAN-based estimator, providing ranging errors better than or equal to 3.23 mm with 90% probability.


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