Impact of directive antenna behavior on multipath MB-OFDM ultra-wideband communications

Author

Klemp, Oliver ; Beichert, Fabian

Author_Institution

TecCenter, Delphi Delco Electron. Eur. GmbH, Bad Salzdetfurth

Volume

1

fYear

2008

fDate

10-12 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

13

Lastpage

16

Abstract

The implementation of multiband OFDM ultra wideband (MB-OFDM UWB) technology into wireless devices aims to enhance transmission capacities for low-range wireless communication systems. Although OFDM transmission provides a certain robustness against multipath interference, miss-aligned antenna elements may largely impact on the resulting signal-to-noise (SNR) conditions thus limiting the UWB link performance. This article aims to highlight the impact of directive antenna radiation behavior on UWB link performance from a systems perspective. Hence, MB-OFDM bit-error rate (BER) behavior is investigated in terms of directive antenna radiation behavior for standardized models of the UWB radio channel.

Keywords

OFDM modulation; antenna radiation patterns; directive antennas; error statistics; multipath channels; ultra wideband antennas; wireless channels; BER; SNR; UWB radio channel; antenna elements; antenna radiation behavior; bit-error rate; directive antenna behavior; multiband orthogonal frequency division multiplexing technology; multipath MB-OFDM ultra-wideband communications; signal-to-noise conditions; wireless devices; Bandwidth; Bit error rate; Convolution; Directive antennas; OFDM; Transmitting antennas; Ultra wideband antennas; Ultra wideband communication; Ultra wideband technology; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultra-Wideband, 2008. ICUWB 2008. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hannover

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2216-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1827-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICUWB.2008.4653274

Filename

4653274