Channel Division Multiple Access Based on High UWB Channel Temporal Resolution

Ultra-wideband (UWB) has been recently presented as a promising radio technology due to the large bandwidth available. This feature enables point to point high data rates at short range as well as high temporal resolution with long channel impulse responses (CIR). Due to the their large bandwidth, UWB systems enables high temporal resolution with long CIR. In this paper, we evaluate an original multiple access scheme called channel division multiple access (ChDMA), where we use the CIR as a user signature. The signature code is given by the channel and the users are separated by their position: this signature is uniquely determined by the user's position, which changes from one position to another. This signature location- dependent property provides decentralized flexible multiple access as the codes are naturally generated by the radio channel. The framework is analyzed and validated by capacity assessments using UWB measurements performed at Eurecom and compared with classical CDMA schemes with random spreading codes. The analysis is focused on the impact of the user's asynchronism and the period of symbol on system performance. Two structures are considered at the receiver: single-user matched filter and MMSE receiver with Gaussian and BPSK signaling schemes.