The impact of narrowband interference on the performance of UWB systems in the IEEE802.15.3a channel models

Author

Shaheen, Ehab M. ; El-Tanany, Mohamed

Author_Institution

Dept. of Syst. & Comput. Eng., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, ON, Canada

fYear

2010

fDate

2-5 May 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Ultra wideband (UWB) is considered to be one of the most promising short range wireless communication technologies; due to its high data rate, low cost and low energy consumption. Despite its enviable benefits, the performance of UWB systems may be degraded due to the presence of inband narrow band interference (NBI) signals and this performance must be carefully investigated. To this end; we provide a simple theoretical analysis to the bit error rate performance of the Rake reception of the UWB signal in the presence of NBI signal in the IEEE802.15.3a UWB channel models. The NBI signal is modeled as the standard IEEE802.11a, which is approximated as the sum of “N” tone interferers. We show that our analysis is coincident with the simulation results.

Keywords

energy consumption; error statistics; interference; personal area networks; radiocommunication; ultra wideband communication; wireless LAN; wireless channels; IEEE 802.11a; IEEE 802.15.3a UWB channel model; N tone interferers; Rake reception; bit error rate performance; energy consumption; inband narrow band interference signals; narrowband interference; short range wireless communication technology; ultra wideband system; Bit error rate; Channel models; Fading; Interference; Multipath channels; Receivers; Wireless LAN; IEEE802.15.3a Channel Models; Narrowband Interference; Ultra Wideband;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), 2010 23rd Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

Calgary, AB

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5376-4

Electronic_ISBN

0840-7789

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.2010.5575235

Filename

5575235