A fast low-cost TOA estimation for UWB impulse radio networks - Archive ouverte HAL Access content directly
Conference Papers Year : 2012

A fast low-cost TOA estimation for UWB impulse radio networks

Jorge Arturo Pardinas Mir
  • Function : Author
  • PersonId : 913249
Muriel Muller

Abstract

A time of arrival (TOA) estimation method for a Transmitted Reference Ultra-wideband (TR-UWB) receiver is presented and experimentally tested in a wireless environment. The receiver uses the low-complexity Time Delayed Sampling and Correlation (TDSC) method and prototype circuit. The two-step estimation proposal relies first on the sliding correlation over a symbol length, at the coarse step, to find a signal block where the direct path is enclosed, and at the second step, the sliding correlation is more finely evaluated over this signal block to estimate precisely the beginning of the pulse. Here the TOA can be evaluated with a high resolution obtained from the relatively high sampling frequency of the metal-oxide semiconductor circuit (CMOS) that implements the TDSC method. This TOA estimator structure is simple, feasible and with a low computing demand, suited for fast mobile localization.
No file

Dates and versions

hal-00739280 , version 1 (07-10-2012)

Identifiers

Cite

Jorge Arturo Pardinas Mir, Roger Lamberti, Muriel Muller, Claude Gimenes. A fast low-cost TOA estimation for UWB impulse radio networks. Communications (COMM), 2012 9th International Conference on, Jun 2012, Bucarest, Romania. pp.ISBN-978-1-4577-0057-6, ⟨10.1109/ICComm.2012.6262571⟩. ⟨hal-00739280⟩
35 View
0 Download

Altmetric

Share

Gmail Facebook X LinkedIn More