Antenna characteristics and ranging robustness with double quadrature receiver and UWB impulse radio

Author

Bautista, Farid ; Morche, Dominique ; Bories, Serge ; Masson, Gilles

Author_Institution

MINATEC, CEA, Grenoble, France

fYear

2012

fDate

17-20 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

173

Lastpage

177

Abstract

This paper analyzes the effect of the antenna characteristics on the ranging precision of UWB impulse radio receivers. It shows that the influence of the antenna highly depends on the chosen RF architecture. The single quadrature receiver architecture is first explained and analyzed. Then the double quadrature receiver is presented and its robustness is justified. A small size miniaturized ultra wideband antenna is then described. This antenna is exploited to validate the robustness thanks to link level simulations.

Keywords

radio receivers; ultra wideband antennas; ultra wideband communication; RF architecture; UWB impulse radio receivers; antenna characteristics; double quadrature receiver; link level simulations; ranging robustness; single quadrature receiver architecture; small size miniaturized ultrawideband antenna; Azimuth; Dipole antennas; Distance measurement; Receiving antennas; Ultra wideband antennas; Antenna Effect; Impulse Radio; RF Receiver Architecture; Ranging; UWB;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB), 2012 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Syracuse, NY

ISSN

2162-6588

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-2031-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICUWB.2012.6340495

Filename

6340495