2nd International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China

Research Article

A Fast PN Code Acquisition Algorithm for DS-UWB Systems

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/CHINACOM.2007.4469602,
        author={Qi Li-na and Gan Zong-liang and Zhu Hong-bo},
        title={A Fast PN Code Acquisition Algorithm for DS-UWB Systems},
        proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China},
        proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
        year={2008},
        month={3},
        keywords={acquisition  auxiliary sequence  direct sequence ultra-wideband (DS-UWB)  pseudo-noise (PN) code},
        doi={10.1109/CHINACOM.2007.4469602}
    }
    
  • Qi Li-na
    Gan Zong-liang
    Zhu Hong-bo
    Year: 2008
    A Fast PN Code Acquisition Algorithm for DS-UWB Systems
    CHINACOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/CHINACOM.2007.4469602
Qi Li-na1,*, Gan Zong-liang1,*, Zhu Hong-bo1,*
  • 1: College of Telecommunications&Information Engineering Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications Nanjing, China
*Contact email: aigicf@163.com, ganzongliang@163.com, zhuhb@njupt.edu.cn

Abstract

The great potential of the direct sequence ultrawideband (DS-UWB) depends critically on the success of timing acquisition. In this paper, we present a rapid acquisition algorithm for reducing the acquisition time of the coarse pseudonoise (PN) sequences with the auxiliary sequence and binary search strategy based on threshold comparison criterion. Both theoretical analysis and simulation tests show that with the proposed search strategy and simple operations over the symbol duration at the receiver, our algorithm can reduce considerably the acquisition time while maintain the PN sequence acquisition probability in DS-UWB system over dense multi-path environment.