Impact of Integration in Consumer Electronics on the performance of MB-OFDM UWB

In this paper the effect of antenna integration in typical UWB consumer electronic products on the entire system performance is evaluated for a system model based on MB-OFDM. The antenna in its specific integration scenario is characterized by the full wave FDTD method. Different deterministic indoor channels are characterized using ray-tracing simulation. Based on the analysis the channel transfer function, including the antennas can be derived in terms of S-parameters. From the transfer function of the antennas and the channels different antenna and channel related measures like RMS delay spread or frequency depended radiation pattern are derived. In order to evaluate the impact on the entire link performance a MatLab Simulink model of a UWB system is used to model the entire system. The system related parameters like BER (Bit Error Rate) are evaluated with reference to different antenna integrations and link scenarios.