Performance Analysis of Pulse Based Ultra-Wideband Systems in the Highly Frequency Selective Fading Channel with Cluster Property

This paper presents an analytical expression for the bit error rate (BER) of the antipodal and orthogonal binary signals in the ultra-wideband (UWB) channel, of which the unique characteristics include the cluster property and highly dense multipath effect. Specifically, we consider the IEEE 802.15.3a UWB channel and take into account of the impact of all the key parameters, consisting of the cluster arrival rate, cluster decay factor, the number of rays per cluster, and the distribution of a non-Rayleigh fading signal. For the IEEE 802.15.3a UWB channel, the effects of clustering are characterized by a Poisson discrete random variable, and the magnitude of the signal is modelled by lognormal random variable. In this paper, we develop an analytical model to compute the signal with such joint continuous lognormal and discrete Poisson random variable. Hence, the developed analytical model can be useful in evaluating the performance of an UWB signal in the IEEE 802.15.3a channel without time consuming simulations