Multi-pulse multi-delay (MPMD) multiple access modulation for UWB

• US 7,194,019 B2
• Filed: 07/30/2003
• Issued: 03/20/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/11/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC (Government of the United States of America)
• Original Assignee: Regents of the University of California (University of California)
• Inventors: Dowla, Farid U., Nekoogar, Faranak
• Primary Examiner(s): Ghebretinsae; Temesghen
• Assistant Examiner(s): Torres; Juan Alberto
• Application Number:
  US10/631,560
• Publication Number:
  US 20040202230A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,329 Days
• Field of Search: 375/147, 375/259
• US Class Current: 375/147
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/71637 Receiver aspects H04B1/7183 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/7176 Data mapping, e.g. modulation

Abstract

A new modulation scheme in UWB communications is introduced. This modulation technique utilizes multiple orthogonal transmitted-reference pulses for UWB channelization. The proposed UWB receiver samples the second order statistical function at both zero and non-zero lags and matches the samples to stored second order statistical functions, thus sampling and matching the shape of second order statistical functions rather than just the shape of the received pulses.

Claims

1. An ultra-wideband (UWB) receiver, capable of correlating and multi-sampling received pulses, comprising:

a primary delay to reproduce a lag interval D_n of a transmitted pulse pair; and

one or more secondary delays to produce one or more non-zero lag intervals d_nk, wherein a plurality of second order statistical values of each of said received pulses produced at said primary and at said one or more secondary delays are matched to a plurality of second order statistical values of a predetermined reference pulse to determine an output signal indicative of encoded information.

2. The receiver of claim 1, where said second order statistical values are capable of being produced by an autocorrelation function.

3. The receiver of claim 1, where said second order statistical values are capable of being produced by a cross-correlation function.

4. The receiver of claim 1, wherein said encoded pulses includes orthogonal pulses.

5. The receiver of claim 4, wherein said orthogonal pulses include a chirp waveform.

6. The receiver of claim 5, wherein said chirp waveform is different for a plurality of users.

7. The receiver of claim 6, wherein said chirp waveform increases channel capacity and decreases multiple access interference (MAI).

8. The receiver of claim 4, wherein said orthogonal pulses include a Hermite waveform.

9. The receiver of claim 4, wherein said orthogonal pulses include a wavelet waveform.

10. The receiver of claim 1, wherein said encoding includes a relative polarity with respect to a transmitted reference pulse.

11. The receiver of claim 1, wherein said lag interval d_nK includes a temporal delay that can be down to about a picosecond.

12. The receiver of claim 3, wherein cross-correlation values of said received pulses produced at said primary and at said one or more secondary delays are matched to cross-correlation values of a predetermined received sampled reference pulse to determine an output signal indicative of encoded information.

13. An ultra-wideband (UWB) receiver, capable of correlating and multi-sampling received chirp pulses, comprising:

a primary delay to reproduce a lag interval D_n of a transmitted chirp pulse pair,

one or more secondary delays to produce one or more non-zero lag intervals d_nk of said received pulses,

a plurality of pulse multipliers and pulse integrators designed to generate a plurality of autocorrelation functions of said received pulses at said primary delay and at said one or more secondary delays,

a bank of filters to match a plurality of stored sampled autocorrelation functions of one or more transmitted chirp pulses with said generated autocorrelation functions at said primary and said one or more secondary delays of said received chirp pulses; and

a hard decision block designed to produce one or more output bits based on said matched sampled autocorrelation functions and said generated autocorrelation functions of said received pulses indicative of encoded information of said transmitted pulses.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein said lag interval d_nK includes a temporal delay that can be down to about a picosecond.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein said plurality of pulse multipliers and pulse integrators are designed to generate said cross-correlation functions of said received pulses at a zero-lag interval produced by said primary delay and at said one or more non-zero lag intervals d_nk produced by said secondary delays, said bank of filters are designed to match said cross-correlation functions of said received pulses at said zero and non-zero lag intervals of said received pulses;

and wherein said hard decision block is designed to produce one or more output bits based on matched cross-correlation functions indicative of encoded information of said generated pulses.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein said chirp pulses is different for a plurality of users.

17. The system of claim 13, wherein said chirp pulses increases channel capacity and decreases MAI.

18. An ultra-wideband (UWB) system, comprising:

a transmitter capable of generating one or more encoded pulses separated by one or more predetermined lag intervals D_n; and

a receiver, capable of correlating and multi-sampling received pulses by including a primary delay to reproduce said lag interval D_n and further including one or more secondary delays to produce one or more non-zero lag intervals d_nk, wherein a plurality of second order statistical values of each of said received pulses produced at said primary and at said one or more secondary delays are matched to a plurality of second order statistical values of a predetermined reference pulse to determine an output signal indicative of encoded information.

19. The system of claim 18, where said second order statistical values are capable of being produced by an autocorrelation function.

20. The system of claim 18, where said second order statistical values are capable of being produced by a cross-correlation function.

21. The system of claim 18, wherein said encoded pulses includes orthogonal pulses.

22. The system of claim 21, wherein said orthogonal pulses include a chirp waveform.

23. The system of claim 22, wherein said chirp waveform is different for a plurality of users.

24. The system of claim 23, wherein said chirp waveform increases channel capacity and decreases MAI.

25. The system of claim 21, wherein said orthogonal pulses include a Hermite waveform.

26. The system of claim 21, wherein said orthogonal pulses include a wavelet waveform.

27. The system of claim 18, wherein said encoding includes a relative polarity with respect to a transmitted reference pulse.

28. The system of claim 18, wherein said lag interval d_nK includes a temporal delay that can be down to about a picosecond.

29. The system of claim 20, wherein cross-correlation values of said received pulses produced at said primary and at said one or more secondary delays are matched to cross-correlation values of a predetermined received sampled reference pulse to determine an output signal indicative of encoded information.

30. An ultra-wideband (UWB) system, comprising:

a transmitter capable of generating one or more chirp pulses separated by one or more predetermined lag intervals D_n, wherein said pulses are capable of being encoded by a relative polarity,

a receiver, further comprising,

a primary delay for delaying a received pulse by said transmitter to reproduce said lag interval D_n,

one or more secondary delays to produce one or more non-zero lag intervals d_nk of said received pulses,

a plurality of pulse multipliers and pulse integrators designed to generate a plurality of autocorrelation functions of said received pulses at said primary delay and at said one or more secondary delays,

a bank of filters to match a plurality of stored sampled autocorrelation functions of said transmitted pulses with said generated autocorrelation functions at said primary and said one or more secondary delays of said received pulses; and

a hard decision block designed to produce one or more output bits based on said matched sampled autocorrelation functions and said generated autocorrelation functions of said received pulses indicative of encoded information of said transmitted pulses.

31. An ultra-wideband (UWB) method, comprising:

transmitting one or more chirp pulses separated by one or more predetermined lag intervals D_n, wherein said pulses are capable of being encoded by a relative polarity,

receiving said pulses, wherein a primary delay for a received pulse by said transmitter reproduces said lag interval D_n, and wherein one or more secondary delays produces one or more non-zero lag intervals d_nk of said received pulses,

multiplying and integrating said primary and secondary delayed pulses with a predetermined received reference pulse to generate a plurality of autocorrelation functions of said received pulses,

matching a plurality of stored sampled autocorrelation functions of said transmitted pulses with said generated autocorrelation functions; and

outputting bit information based on said matched pre-sampled autocorrelation functions and said generated autocorrelation functions indicative of encoded information of said transmitted pulses.

32. The method of claim 31, wherein said received pulses include orthogonal pulses.

33. The method of claim 32, wherein said orthogonal pulses include a chirp waveform.

34. The method of claim 33, wherein said chirp waveform is different for a plurality of users.

35. The method of claim 33, wherein said chirp waveform increases channel capacity and decreases MAI.

36. The method of claim 32, wherein said orthogonal pulses include a Hermite waveform.

37. The method of claim 32, wherein said orthogonal pulses include a wavelet waveform.