2nd International ICST Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications

Research Article

A new UWB indoor channel identification method

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/CROWNCOM.2007.4549772,
        author={Lorenzo Mucch and Patrizio Marcocci},
        title={A new UWB indoor channel identification method},
        proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CROWNCOM},
        year={2008},
        month={6},
        keywords={Amplitude estimation  Fading  Indoor environments  Multipath channels  Parameter estimation  Proposals  RAKE receivers  Signal processing  Ultra wideband technology  Wireless communication},
        doi={10.1109/CROWNCOM.2007.4549772}
    }
    
  • Lorenzo Mucch
    Patrizio Marcocci
    Year: 2008
    A new UWB indoor channel identification method
    CROWNCOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/CROWNCOM.2007.4549772
Lorenzo Mucch1,*, Patrizio Marcocci2
  • 1: CNIT - Dept. of Electronics and Telecommunications, University of Florence Via santa marta, 3 I-50139, Florence, Italy
  • 2: CNIT - Dept. of Electronics and Telecommunications, University of Florence Via santa marta, 3 1-50139, Florence, Italy
*Contact email: mucchi@lenst.det.unifi.it

Abstract

This paper deals with the proposal of a new parameter for channel identification in ultra wideband (UWB) indoor environments. The proposed method does not imply any estimation process to the received signal and it is able to clearly distinguish not only between LOS and NLOS conditions, but it is also able to order the quality of two different LOS or NLOS conditions, although the SNR is the same. The method proposed here is based on the kurtosis index calculation. Results were obtained by both real measurements and simulations with IEEE802.15.3a channel models.