Ultra-Wideband Communications: Interference Challenges and Solutions

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Auteurs principaux: Nelson, Brian, Moradi, Hussein, Farhang-Boroujeny, Behrouz
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author Nelson, Brian
Moradi, Hussein
Farhang-Boroujeny, Behrouz
author_facet Nelson, Brian
Moradi, Hussein
Farhang-Boroujeny, Behrouz
contents The idea of ultra-wideband (UWB) communications for short ranges (up to a few tens of meters) has been around for nearly three decades. However, despite significant efforts by the industry, UWB deployment has not yet reached its predicted potential. This article, thus, seeks to rectify this situation by providing a practical examination of UWB interference conditions. Through a spectrum survey of today's wireless environments, we explore the interference that UWB devices may face from a perspective of outage probability in both high- and low-rate configurations. We find that by suppressing interference, the outage probability can be reduced by one or more orders of magnitude. In the non-line-of sight channels, in particular, we find that both interference suppression and bandwidth expansion are required to support the minimum data rates suggested in the IEEE802.15.4 series of standards. We connect these findings to a recently proposed UWB signaling method based on filter banks and show this method fulfills the above requirements for implementing effective UWB systems.
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spellingShingle Ultra-Wideband Communications: Interference Challenges and Solutions
Nelson, Brian
Moradi, Hussein
Farhang-Boroujeny, Behrouz
Signal Processing
The idea of ultra-wideband (UWB) communications for short ranges (up to a few tens of meters) has been around for nearly three decades. However, despite significant efforts by the industry, UWB deployment has not yet reached its predicted potential. This article, thus, seeks to rectify this situation by providing a practical examination of UWB interference conditions. Through a spectrum survey of today's wireless environments, we explore the interference that UWB devices may face from a perspective of outage probability in both high- and low-rate configurations. We find that by suppressing interference, the outage probability can be reduced by one or more orders of magnitude. In the non-line-of sight channels, in particular, we find that both interference suppression and bandwidth expansion are required to support the minimum data rates suggested in the IEEE802.15.4 series of standards. We connect these findings to a recently proposed UWB signaling method based on filter banks and show this method fulfills the above requirements for implementing effective UWB systems.
title Ultra-Wideband Communications: Interference Challenges and Solutions
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.07052