Comparing non-ideal ultra-wideband transmission for European and FCC regulation

The performance of UWB transmission can be degraded by non-ideal frontend components. In literature, there exist only few contributions about non-ideal impulse radio transmission, and they are based on the FCC regulation. Non-ideal system considerations for the European regulation are however missing. This paper uses a detailed system model based on measurement data and compares the achievable performance when analogue filters for the European and the FCC regulation are included. The results show that a loss of signal-to-noise ratio due non-ideal filters and bandwidth limitations is very critical at small distances. Filter optimization is hence necessary to improve the system performance.