Selective Signal Combining for Effective BER Improvement in Noncoherent IR-UWB Systems

In order to effectively improve the BER (Bit Error Rate) performance of noncoherent IR-UWB (Impulse Radio Ultra Wide Band) systems utilizing 2PPM (Binary Pulse Position Modulation), we propose a selective signal combining scheme which performs selective combination of received signals by estimating the SNR (Signal-to-Noise Ratio) of the energies during the pulse width interval.

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