Abstract
Impulse Radio-Ultra-wideband (IR-UWB) is an attractive wireless technology for Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) applications. Low power transmitter design and low complexity hardware implementation present the possibility of developing sensor nodes with small form factors with high data rate capability. A UWB transceiver is the core unit required in a UWB based WBAN system that provide wireless communications. It determines critical properties of the WBAN, such as data rate and power consumption. This chapter focuses on the hardware implementation of UWB based sensor nodes for WBAN applications. Different realizations of UWB transceiver architectures are described and a critical analysis of their suitability for WBAN applications is presented. In addition, different UWB pulse generation techniques are discussed.
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