Abstract
Multiaccess interference (MAI)-plus-noise whitening for detecting impulse radio ultra-wide bandwidth (IR-UWB) signals transmitted over ideal free-space and the IEEE 802.15.3a channels is considered. IR-UWB signals are very sparse in time and, thus, MAI-plus-noise whitening cannot introduce intersymbol interference (ISI) in IR-UWB systems operating on an ideal free-space channel. In addition, ISI in UWB multipath fading channels can be eliminated by a proper choice of the frame duration. An analytical expression for the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) of IR-UWB systems after MAI-plus-noise whitening is derived and the SINR improvement due to whitening is investigated. It is shown that whitening can improve the performance of a variety of the well-known IR-UWB receivers, viz., soft-limiting, P-order metric, optimal, and the conventional matched filter receivers. It is also observed that MAI-plus-noise whitening can improve the overall SINR of the system and, thus, decrease the complexity of Rake receivers through reducing the number of their processing branches.
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