Non-coherent detection of impulse radio UWB signals based on fourth order statistics

Non-coherent receivers are an attractive solution for impulse radio (IR) ultra wideband (UWB) systems due to their low-complexity implementation and low power consumption. However, low-complexity detection is achieved at the expense of some loss in performance. In this paper, a non-coherent detection scheme based on fourth order statistics, i.e., kurtosis, is proposed for low data rate IR-UWB systems. The performance of a conventional energy detector (ED) and the proposed kurtosis detector (KD) is compared in terms of bit-error-rate (BER). The simulation results validate that the KD receiver outperforms a conventional ED receiver on both additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) and IEEE 802.15.4a multipath channels.

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