Performance Evaluation of UWB Wireless Link

Abstract

An Ultra wideband technology played an important role in home networks to facilitate the transmission of multimedia contents between two consumer devices using wireless USB. This paper investigated the performance of UWB Transmitter-Receiver system, based on 2-dimensional hermite modulation, in view of its practical implementation. Performance of the UWB system was evaluated here with a cost effective and simple receiver structure, for short distance communication of 4 meters, by limiting the transmitter power, to maintain the Effective Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP) of -41.3dBm/MHz as per FCC rule for UWB radio. The performance of the said system was also analyzed for different data rates using different sampling frequencies over multipath UWB channel, with and without the use of error correcting code. Simulations were performed in MatLAb Simulink for single user, for the image transmission application, as an extension to the previous work. System BER of 10e-5 was required to receive an image with 100% accuracy at the receiver end. It was observed that over UWB channel, at 10 GHz sampling rate, with 1.5 ns pulse width and with 10dBm transmission power, an image was received accurately at symbol SNR of 35dB without ECC and that of 12dB with (8 2 5) double error correcting code, of ¼ code rate designed in earlier work. The simulation results presented in this paper support the future implementation of UWB system that is cheaper and simpler for better performance.