Data detection for UWB transmitted reference systems with inter-pulse interference

An ultra wideband (UWB) transmitted reference (TR) scheme transmits an un-modulated pulse and a delayed modulated pulse each time. Then a correlation receiver uses the former to demodulate the latter. However, to guarantee satisfactory detection performance in severe multipath distortion, two pulses have to be well separated by at least the channel spread, resulting in reduced data rate. In this paper, the restrictive assumption is relaxed which consequently permits interference from neighboring pulses (termed as inter-pulse interference). Instead of using instantaneous signal from the former pulse as a template, improved estimates by a mean matching technique under different modulation schemes are proposed and used for better detection performance. Besides low complexity approaches, joint maximum likelihood (ML) template estimators and detectors are also proposed. Their statistical performance is analyzed and compared.

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