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Hybrid ultrawideband modulations compatible for both coherent and transmit-reference receivers

Zhao, Shiwei ; Orlik, Philip ; Molisch, Andreas LU ; Liu, Huaping and Zhang, Jinyun (2007) In IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 6(7). p.2551-2559
Abstract
This paper considers signaling schemes for heterogeneous ultrawideband communications networks that contain both coherent (rake) and transmitted-reference (TR) receivers. While coherent receivers are capable of receiving TR signals, they do so with a 3 dB penalty, because they cannot make use of the energy invested into the reference pulse. We propose a new signaling scheme that avoids this drawback, by encoding redundant information on the reference pulse. The resulting scheme does not affect the operation of a TR receiver, while recovering the 3 dB penalty and furthermore providing an additional 1.7 dB coding gain to a coherent uncoded binary scheme. This can be explained by interpreting the scheme as a trellis-coded modulation. We also... (More)
This paper considers signaling schemes for heterogeneous ultrawideband communications networks that contain both coherent (rake) and transmitted-reference (TR) receivers. While coherent receivers are capable of receiving TR signals, they do so with a 3 dB penalty, because they cannot make use of the energy invested into the reference pulse. We propose a new signaling scheme that avoids this drawback, by encoding redundant information on the reference pulse. The resulting scheme does not affect the operation of a TR receiver, while recovering the 3 dB penalty and furthermore providing an additional 1.7 dB coding gain to a coherent uncoded binary scheme. This can be explained by interpreting the scheme as a trellis-coded modulation. We also provide an alternative implementation that can be viewed as a recursive systematic convolutional encoder. Combining this version further with a simple forward error correction encoder results in a concatenated code that can be decoded iteratively, providing a bit-error rate of 10(-3) at 2.8 dB signal-to-noise ratio in additive white Gaussian noise. The convergence behavior of this iterative code is analyzed by using extrinsic information transfer charts. (Less)
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transmit-reference, convolutional code, recursive systematic, iterative decoding, coherent rake, EXIT chart, ultrawideband
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IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
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6
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7
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2551 - 2559
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IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
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1536-1276
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10.1109/TWC.2007.05892
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English
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  abstract     = {{This paper considers signaling schemes for heterogeneous ultrawideband communications networks that contain both coherent (rake) and transmitted-reference (TR) receivers. While coherent receivers are capable of receiving TR signals, they do so with a 3 dB penalty, because they cannot make use of the energy invested into the reference pulse. We propose a new signaling scheme that avoids this drawback, by encoding redundant information on the reference pulse. The resulting scheme does not affect the operation of a TR receiver, while recovering the 3 dB penalty and furthermore providing an additional 1.7 dB coding gain to a coherent uncoded binary scheme. This can be explained by interpreting the scheme as a trellis-coded modulation. We also provide an alternative implementation that can be viewed as a recursive systematic convolutional encoder. Combining this version further with a simple forward error correction encoder results in a concatenated code that can be decoded iteratively, providing a bit-error rate of 10(-3) at 2.8 dB signal-to-noise ratio in additive white Gaussian noise. The convergence behavior of this iterative code is analyzed by using extrinsic information transfer charts.}},
  author       = {{Zhao, Shiwei and Orlik, Philip and Molisch, Andreas and Liu, Huaping and Zhang, Jinyun}},
  issn         = {{1536-1276}},
  keywords     = {{transmit-reference; convolutional code; recursive systematic; iterative decoding; coherent rake; EXIT chart; ultrawideband}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{7}},
  pages        = {{2551--2559}},
  publisher    = {{IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.}},
  series       = {{IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications}},
  title        = {{Hybrid ultrawideband modulations compatible for both coherent and transmit-reference receivers}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TWC.2007.05892}},
  doi          = {{10.1109/TWC.2007.05892}},
  volume       = {{6}},
  year         = {{2007}},
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