6th International ICST Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems

Research Article

Timing Acquisition Dispensing with Searching for UWB Communications

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.BROADNETS2009.7072,
        author={Zhiyuan Ren and Tiejun Lv},
        title={Timing Acquisition Dispensing with Searching for UWB Communications},
        proceedings={6th International ICST Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={BROADNETS},
        year={2009},
        month={11},
        keywords={Ultra-Wideband impulse radio Synchronization Timing Acquisition Dispensing with searching},
        doi={10.4108/ICST.BROADNETS2009.7072}
    }
    
  • Zhiyuan Ren
    Tiejun Lv
    Year: 2009
    Timing Acquisition Dispensing with Searching for UWB Communications
    BROADNETS
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.4108/ICST.BROADNETS2009.7072
Zhiyuan Ren1,*, Tiejun Lv1,*
  • 1: School of Information and Communication Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China 100876
*Contact email: rensimo@gmail.com, lvtiejun@gmail.com

Abstract

One of the biggest challenges in ultra-wideband (UWB) communications is the accurate and rapid timing acquisition for the receiver. This paper presents a timing acquisition scheme dispensing with searching for UWB communications. Without training sequence involved, timing offset parameter is estimated by exploiting a stream of alternating orthogonal pulses, and frame-level synchronization can be achieved without channel information at a low sampling rate of once per symbol. Without any searching procedure, the proposed algorithm not only considerably reduces synchronization time, but also improves synchronization performance relative to the existing alternatives in terms of normalized mean square error (NMSE) and bit error rate (BER), which is confirmed by simulations.