Title
Ir-Uwb Detection And Fusion Strategies Using Multiple Detector Types
Abstract
Optimal detection of ultra wideband (UWB) pulses in a UWB transceiver employing multiple detector types is proposed and analyzed in this paper. To enable the transceiver to be used for multiple applications, the designers have different types of detectors such as energy detector, amplitude detector, etc., built in to a single transceiver architecture. We propose several fusion techniques for fusing decisions made by individual IR-UWB detectors. In order to get early insight into theoretical achievable performance of these fusion techniques, we assess the performance of these fusion techniques for commonly used detector types like matched filter, energy detector and amplitude detector under Gaussian assumption. These are valid for ultra short distance communication and in UWB systems operating in millimeter wave (mmwave) band with high directivity gain. In this paper, we utilize the performance equations of different detectors, to device distinct fusion algorithms. We show that the performance can be improved approximately by 4 dB in terms of signal to noise ratio (SNR) for high probability of detection of a UWB signal (> 95%), by fusing decisions from multiple detector types compared to a standalone energy detector, in a practical scenario.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/WCNC.2016.7565140
2016 IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING CONFERENCE
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Ultra Wideband (UWB), UWB ranging, Sensor Networks, Time of Arrival (TOA), Neyman-Pearson test
Conference
abs/1501.00409
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1525-3511
1
0.37
References 
Authors
12
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vijaya Yajnanarayana1866.93
Satyam Dwivedi211.72
Peter Händel3163.32