Time-of-Arrival Estimation by Means of SAGE for IR-UWB in the Presence of Pulse Overlap

Author

Vanhaverbeke, Frederik ; Moeneclaey, Marc ; Guan, Yong Liang

Author_Institution

TELIN/DIGCOM, Ghent Univ., Ghent, Belgium

fYear

2010

fDate

13-19 June 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper we present a low-complexity iterative algorithm to estimate the Time of Arrival (ToA) of an Impulse-Radio Ultra Wide Band (IR-UWB) system with pulse overlap between the first two paths. The performance of this SAGE estimation algorithm is compared with that of the optimal estimator. We find that, although the SAGE algorithm is unable to determine a tight ToA estimate when the delay between the two paths is very low, its performance converges quickly to that of the optimal estimator for moderate path delays.

Keywords

iterative methods; time-of-arrival estimation; ultra wideband communication; IR-UWB system; SAGE estimation algorithm; impulse-radio ultra wideband system; low-complexity iterative algorithm; pulse overlap; time-of-arrival estimation; Artificial satellites; Channel estimation; Correlators; Data communication; Delay estimation; Iterative algorithms; Paper technology; Partial transmit sequences; Time of arrival estimation; Ultra wideband technology; IR-UWB; SAGE; Time-of-arrival;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advances in Satellite and Space Communications (SPACOMM), 2010 Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Athens

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7275-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SPACOMM.2010.10

Filename

5502664