8th International Conference on Body Area Networks

Research Article

Efficient synchronization technique for non-coherent IR-UWB receiver targeting IEEE 802.15.6 wireless BAN

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.bodynets.2013.253929,
        author={Houcine Chougrani and Jean Schwoerer},
        title={Efficient synchronization technique for non-coherent IR-UWB receiver targeting IEEE 802.15.6 wireless BAN},
        proceedings={8th International Conference on Body Area Networks},
        publisher={ICST},
        proceedings_a={BODYNETS},
        year={2013},
        month={10},
        keywords={synchronization header (shr) body area network (ban) impulse radio ultra wideband (ir-uwb) non-coherent receivers physical layer},
        doi={10.4108/icst.bodynets.2013.253929}
    }
    
  • Houcine Chougrani
    Jean Schwoerer
    Year: 2013
    Efficient synchronization technique for non-coherent IR-UWB receiver targeting IEEE 802.15.6 wireless BAN
    BODYNETS
    ACM
    DOI: 10.4108/icst.bodynets.2013.253929
Houcine Chougrani,*, Jean Schwoerer1
  • 1: Orange Labs
*Contact email: houcine.chougrani@orange.com

Abstract

The introduction in 2012 of the IEEE 802.15.6 standard for wireless body area networks (BAN) stimulates the re- search of practical and efficient receiver implementations. One of the main challenges in this context deals with the signal synchronization for the impulse radio ultra wideband (IR-UWB) physical layer. Targeting non-coherent detec- tors, which are known to offer significant energy-per-bit sav- ings over their coherent counterparts, this paper presents a novel standard-compliant synchronization technique. The proposed technique is based on inter-pulse time interval de- tection and comparison. The associated performance has been evaluated using relevant channel models specified in the IEEE 802.15.6 standard. Promising results are demon- strated in terms of number of synchronization success rate and time.