August 2005
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
4h 32m
English
UWB technology for communications is not all about advantages. In fact, there are many challenges involved in using nanosecond-duration pulses for communications. Some of the main difficulties of UWB communications are discussed in the following subsections.
The transmission characteristics of UWB pulses are more complicated than those of continuous narrowband sinusoids. A narrowband signal remains sinusoidal throughout the transmission channel. However, the weak and low-powered UWB pulses can be distorted significantly by the transmission link. We can show this distortion mathematically with the widely used Friis transmission formula:
Equation 1-7
where Pr and Pt are the received and transmitted ...
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