Software defined radio layer for IR-UWB systems in Wireless Sensor Network context

Author

Lecointre, Aubin ; Dragomirecu, Daniela ; Plana, Robert

Author_Institution

LAAS-CNRS, Univ. of Toulouse, Toulouse

fYear

2007

fDate

5-8 Aug. 2007

Firstpage

1149

Lastpage

1152

Abstract

This paper addresses the radio interface problematic for MANET (mobile ad-hoc network) applications. Here we propose to study the radio reconfigurability in order to provide a unique physical layer which is able to deal with all MANET applications. For implementing this reconfigurable physical layer, we propose to use Impulse Radio Ultra WideBand (IR- UWB). This paper presents also our two level design approach for obtaining our reconfigurable IR-UWB receiver on FPGA (field programmable gate array).

Keywords

ad hoc networks; field programmable gate arrays; mobile radio; radio receivers; software radio; ultra wideband communication; wireless sensor networks; FPGA; IR-UWB systems; MANET; field programmable gate array; impulse radio ultra wideband systems; mobile ad-hoc network; radio interface; radio receiver; software defined radio layer; wireless sensor network context; Amplitude modulation; Costs; Field programmable gate arrays; Mathematical model; Mobile ad hoc networks; Pulse modulation; Receivers; Software radio; Ultra wideband technology; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2007. NEWCAS 2007. IEEE Northeast Workshop on

Conference_Location

Montreal, Que

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1163-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1164-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NEWCAS.2007.4488007

Filename

4488007