Cramer-Rao lower bounds for the time delay estimation of UWB signals

Author

Zhang, J. ; Kennedy, R.A. ; Abhayapala, T.D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Telecommun. Eng., Australian Nat. Univ., Canberra, ACT, Australia

Volume

6

fYear

2004

fDate

20-24 June 2004

Firstpage

3424

Abstract

In this paper, we present the Cramer-Rao lower bounds (CKLBs) for the time delay estimation of UWB signals which could be tight lower bounds for the theoretical performance limits of UWB synchronizers. The CRLBs are investigated for both single pulse systems and time hopping systems in AWGN and multipath channels. Insights are given into the relationship between CRLBs for different Gaussian monocycles. It is found that larger number of multipath signals implies higher CRLBs and inferior performance of synchronizers, and multipath interference on CRLBs can not be eliminated completely except in very special cases. As every estimate of time delay could not be perfect, the least influence of the synchronization error on the performance of receivers is quantified.

Keywords

AWGN channels; broadband networks; delay estimation; error statistics; multipath channels; radio receivers; radiocommunication; radiofrequency interference; synchronisation; AWGN channel; Cramer-Rao lower bound; Gaussian monocycle; UWB receiver; UWB signal; UWB synchronizer; multipath channel; multipath interference; multipath signal; pulse system; synchronization error; time delay estimation; time hopping system; AWGN; Baseband; Delay effects; Delay estimation; Interference elimination; Multipath channels; Pulse modulation; Spread spectrum communication; Ultra wideband technology; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2004 IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8533-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2004.1313180

Filename

1313180