An Algorithm for Estimating Ep/No of UWB Signals 


Vol. 29,  No. 9, pp. 1316-1322, Sep.  2004


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  Abstract

Recently, the UWB (ultra wide-band) wireless communication technology, which provides high data transmission and is capable of linearly trading between throughput and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), has drawn much attention for short-range wireless networks. Fully exploiting its notable features and minimizing its interference to coexisting other systems require the knowledge of SNR's at receivers In this paper, we propose an algorithm for estimating the pulse energy to noise ratio Ep/No of UWB signal with utilization of outputs from a correlator at a receiver, and evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm through computer simulation. According to simulation results, the maximum standard deviation is about 1 13 dB with a block size of 500. Except for Ep/No=O and 2 dB cases with a block size of 500, no errors greater than 3 dB were observed in all the remaining experiments. Generally speaking, it improves as the true Ep/No, increases and as the block size increases A notable feature of the proposed algorithm is that it does not reduce the effective throughput because the estimation process does not require sending additional training signal of any specific format.

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[IEEE Style]

S. Im, "An Algorithm for Estimating Ep/No of UWB Signals," The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, vol. 29, no. 9, pp. 1316-1322, 2004. DOI: .

[ACM Style]

Sungbin Im. 2004. An Algorithm for Estimating Ep/No of UWB Signals. The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, 29, 9, (2004), 1316-1322. DOI: .

[KICS Style]

Sungbin Im, "An Algorithm for Estimating Ep/No of UWB Signals," The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, vol. 29, no. 9, pp. 1316-1322, 9. 2004.