Title : 
Composite Pulse-Multipath Channel Estimation for IR-UWB Communication System
         
        
            Author : 
Liu Zhiyong ; Zhang Qinyu ; Zhang Naitong
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Shenzhen Grad. Sch., Harbin Inst. of Technol., Shenzhen, China
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
In this paper, we develop a composite pulse-multipath channel estimation approach for impulse radio-ultra wideband (IR-UWB) system. The approach is realized by means of the nearest neighbor (NN) estimation algorithm. This reconstructed signal is subsequently used as a reference template in a correlator-based detector. The bit error rate (BER) performance of the proposed approach is analyzed and compared to that of traditional correlator-based detector. Extensive simulations show that for different propagation scenarios and transfer rates, detectors based on NN composite pulse-multipath channel estimation outperform traditional correlator-based detector.
         
        
            Keywords : 
channel estimation; correlation methods; error statistics; multipath channels; signal detection; signal reconstruction; ultra wideband communication; BER performance; IR-UWB communication system; NN estimation algorithm; bit error rate; composite pulse-multipath channel estimation; correlator-based detector; impulse radio-ultra wideband system; nearest neighbor estimation algorithm; propagation scenario; reference template; signal reconstruction; Bit error rate; Channel estimation; Delay effects; Detectors; Fading; Multipath channels; Nearest neighbor searches; Neural networks; Pulse modulation; RAKE receivers;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2009. WiCom '09. 5th International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Beijing
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-3692-7
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-3693-4
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/WICOM.2009.5305541