ULTRA-WIDEBAND RADIO TECHNOLOGIE FOR COMMUNICATIONS, LOCALIZATION AND SENSOR APPLICATIONS

ULTRA-WIDEBAND RADIO TECHNOLOGIES FOR COMMUNICATIONS, LOCALIZATION AND SENSOR APPLICATIONS Edited by Reiner Thomä, Reinhard H. Knöchel, Jürgen Sachs, Ingolf Willms and Thomas Zwick Ultra-Wideband Radio Technologies for Communications, Localization and Sensor Applications http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/2648 Edited by Reiner Thomä, Reinhard H. Knöchel, Jürgen Sachs, Ingolf Willms and Thomas Zwick Contributors Rainer Moorfeld, Adolf Finger, Hanns-Ulrich Dehner, Holger Jäkel, Martin Braun, Friedrich K. Jondral, María Dolores Pérez Guirao, Josef A. Nossek, Peter Russer, Tobias Noll, Amine Mezghani, Michel T. Ivrlač, Matthias Korb, Farooq Mukhtar, Hristomir Yordanov, Johannes A. Russer , Nuan Song, Mike Wolf, Martin Haardt, Andreas Schenk, Robert F.H. Fischer, Mohamed El-Hadidy, Mohammed El-Absi, Yoke Leen Sit, Markus Kock, Thomas Zwick, Holger Blume, Thomas Kaiser, Markus Grimm, Dirk Manteuffel, Gholamreza Alirezaei, Rudolf Mathar, Daniel Bielefeld, Rudolf Zetik, Honghui Yan, Elke Malz, Snezhana Jovanoska, Guowei Shen, Reiner S. Thomä, Rahmi Salman, Thorsten Schultze, Robert Tobera, Hans-Ingolf Willms, Lars Reichardt, Malgorzata Janson, Thomas Zwick, Werner Wiesbeck, Tobias Deißler, Jörn Thielecke, Steffen Heuel, Hermann Rohling, Ingrid Hilger, Katja Dahlke, Gabriella Rimkus, Christiane Geyer, Frank Seifert, Olaf Kosch, Florian Thiel, Matthias Hein, Francesco Scotto di Clemente, Ulrich Schwarz, Marko Helbig, Jürgen Sachs, Henning Mextorf, Frank Daschner, Mike Kent, Reinhard Knöchel, Alexander Esswein, Robert Weigel, Christian Carlowitz, Martin Vossiek, Stefan Heinen, Ralf Wunderlich, Markus Robens, Martin Kmec, Robert Weigel, Thomas Ußmüller, Benjamin Sewiolo, Mohamed Hamouda, Rolf Kraemer, Johann-Christoph Scheytt, Yevgen Borokhovych, Dayang Lin, Michael Mirbach, Thanawat Thiasiriphet, Jürgen Lindner, Wolfgang Menzel, Hermann Schumacher, Mario Leib, Bernd Schleicher Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia Copyright © 2013 InTech All chapters are Open Access distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, which allows users to download, copy and build upon published articles even for commercial purposes, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited, which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. After this work has been published by InTech, authors have the right to republish it, in whole or part, in any publication of which they are the author, and to make other personal use of the work. Any republication, referencing or personal use of the work must explicitly identify the original source. Notice Statements and opinions expressed in the chapters are these of the individual contributors and not necessarily those of the editors or publisher. No responsibility is accepted for the accuracy of information contained in the published chapters. The publisher assumes no responsibility for any damage or injury to persons or property arising out of the use of any materials, instructions, methods or ideas contained in the book. Publishing Process Manager Viktorija Zgela Typesetting InTech Prepress, Novi Sad Cover InTech Design Team First published February, 2013 Printed in Croatia A free online edition of this book is available at www.intechopen.com Additional hard copies can be obtained from orders@intechopen.com Ultra-Wideband Radio Technologies for Communications, Localization and Sensor Applications, Edited by Reiner Thomä, Reinhard H. Knöchel, Jürgen Sachs, Ingolf Willms and Thomas Zwick p. cm. ISBN 978-953-51-0936-5 Contents Editors IX Preface XIX Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 MIRA – Physical Layer Optimisation for the Multiband Impulse Radio UWB Architecture 1 Rainer Moorfeld, Adolf Finger, Hanns-Ulrich Dehner, Holger Jäkel, Martin Braun and Friedrich K. Jondral Pulse Rate Control for Low Power and Low Data Rate Ultra Wideband Networks 51 María Dolores Pérez Guirao Chip-to-Chip and On-Chip Communications 75 Josef A. Nossek, Peter Russer, Tobias Noll, Amine Mezghani, Michel T. Ivrlač, Matthias Korb, Farooq Mukhtar, Hristomir Yordanov, Johannes A. Russer Non-Coherent UWB Communications 109 Nuan Song, Mike Wolf and Martin Haardt Coding, Modulation, and Detection for Power-Efficient Low-Complexity Receivers in Impulse-Radio Ultra-Wideband Transmission Systems 123 Andreas Schenk and Robert F.H. Fischer Interference Alignment for UWB-MIMO Communication Systems 133 Mohamed El-Hadidy, Mohammed El-Absi, Yoke Leen Sit, Markus Kock, Thomas Zwick, Holger Blume and Thomas Kaiser Antennas and Propagation for On-, Off- In-Body Communications 153 Markus Grimm and Dirk Manteuffel ... - tailieumienphi.vn