Multiuser interference mitigation in noncoherent UWB ranging via nonlinear filtering

  • Authors:
  • Zafer Sahinoglu;Ismail Guvenc

  • Affiliations:
  • Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, Cambridge, MA;Department of Electrical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

  • Venue:
  • EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Ranging with energy detectors enables low-cost implementation. However, any interference can be quite detrimental to range accuracy. We develop a method that performs nonlinear filtering on the received signal energy to mitigate multiuser interference (MUI), and we test it over time hopping and direct sequence impulse radio ultra-wideband signals. Simulations conducted over IEEE 802.15.4a residential line of sight ultrawideband multipath channels indicate that nonlinear filtering helps sustain range estimation accuracy in the presence of strong MUI.