BER sensitivity to mistiming in ultra-wideband impulse Radios-part I: nonrandom channels

@article{citeulike:2522010, abstract = {We investigate timing tolerances of ultra wideband (UWB) impulse radios. We quantify the bit-error-rate (BER) sensitivity to epoch timing offset under different operating conditions, including frequency flat fading channels, dense multipath fading channels, multiple access with time hopping, and various receiver types including sliding correlators and RAKE combiners. Our systematic approach to BER derivations under mistiming can be extended to a wide range of channel fading types. Through analyses and simulations, we illustrate that the reception quality of a UWB impulse radio is highly sensitive to both timing acquisition and tracking errors. In particular, time-hopping-based multiple-access systems exhibit little tolerance to acquisition errors, and the energy capture capability of a RAKE combiner can be severely compromised by mistiming.}, author = {Tian, Zhi and Giannakis, G. B. }, booktitle = {Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on [see also Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on]}, citeulike-article-id = {2522010}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TSP.2005.843747}, journal = {Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on [see also Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on]}, keywords = {impulse-radio, jitter, timing\_sensitivity, uwb}, number = {4}, pages = {1550--1560}, posted-at = {2008-03-12 17:45:34}, priority = {2}, title = {BER sensitivity to mistiming in ultra-wideband impulse Radios-part I: nonrandom channels}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TSP.2005.843747}, volume = {53}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2522010 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2522010 TI - BER sensitivity to mistiming in ultra-wideband impulse Radios-part I: nonrandom channels T2 - Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on [see also Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on] JF - Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on [see also Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on] VL - 53 IS - 4 SP - 1550 EP - 1560 N2 - We investigate timing tolerances of ultra wideband (UWB) impulse radios. We quantify the bit-error-rate (BER) sensitivity to epoch timing offset under different operating conditions, including frequency flat fading channels, dense multipath fading channels, multiple access with time hopping, and various receiver types including sliding correlators and RAKE combiners. Our systematic approach to BER derivations under mistiming can be extended to a wide range of channel fading types. Through analyses and simulations, we illustrate that the reception quality of a UWB impulse radio is highly sensitive to both timing acquisition and tracking errors. In particular, time-hopping-based multiple-access systems exhibit little tolerance to acquisition errors, and the energy capture capability of a RAKE combiner can be severely compromised by mistiming. KW - impulse-radio KW - jitter KW - timing_sensitivity KW - uwb AU - Tian, Zhi AU - Giannakis, GB PY - 2005/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TSP.2005.843747 ER -