Enhanced ultra wide band signal detection using an ultra wide band kernel
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1. A method comprising:
- receiving an ultra wide band (UWB) signal including pseudo-random noise (PRN) encoded information;
correlating the UWB signal with a UWB kernel that consists of a UWB pulse having a pulse shape substantially identical to a pulse shape of a transmitted UWB pulse to generate a pre-correlated signal;
correlating the pre-correlated signal with the UWB kernel for a second time prior to correlating the pre-correlated signal with the PRN code;
correlating the pre-correlated signal with the PRN code to locate UWB pulses in the UWB signal; and
outputting the located UWB pulses.
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Abstract
A system and method is provided for improving the operating range for UWB communication systems by increasing the margin between true correlation peaks and false correlation peaks in a received UWB signal. A received signal is first correlated with a UWB kernel before being correlated with the PRN code. The UWB kernel is a very short UWB pulse having the same pulse shape as the UWB signal pulses. By pre-correlating the received signal with the UWB kernel at least once prior to correlating with the PRN code, the margin between true correlation peaks and false correlation peaks is substantially improved.
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1. A method comprising:
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receiving an ultra wide band (UWB) signal including pseudo-random noise (PRN) encoded information; correlating the UWB signal with a UWB kernel that consists of a UWB pulse having a pulse shape substantially identical to a pulse shape of a transmitted UWB pulse to generate a pre-correlated signal; correlating the pre-correlated signal with the UWB kernel for a second time prior to correlating the pre-correlated signal with the PRN code; correlating the pre-correlated signal with the PRN code to locate UWB pulses in the UWB signal; and outputting the located UWB pulses. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. An ultra side band (UWB) communication system comprising:
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a UWB receiving antenna; two pre-correlators connected to the UWB receiving antenna, the pre-correlators configured to correlate a UWB signal received from the UWB receiving antenna with a UWB kernel that consists of UWB pulse having a pulse shape substantially identical to a pulse shape of a transmitted UWB pulse to generate a pre-correlated signal, wherein the two pre-correlators are connected in series and a first pre-correlator correlates the UWB signal received from the UWB receiving antenna with the UWB kernel and the second pre-correlator correlates a signal received from the first pre-correlator with the UWB kernel to generate the pre-correlated signal; and a correlator connected to the pre-correlators, the correlator configured to correlate the pre-correlated signal with a pseudo-random noise (PRN) code in order to locate the UWB pulses. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method comprising:
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receiving an ultra wide band (UWB) signal including modulation code encoded information; correlating the UWB signal with a UWB kernel that consists of a UWB pulse having a pulse shape substantially identical to a pulse shape of a transmitted UWB pulse to generate a pre-correlated signal; correlating the pre-correlated signal with the UWB kernel for a second time prior to correlating the pre-correlated signal with the modulation code; correlating the pre-correlated signal with the modulation code to locate UWB pulses in the UWB signal; and outputting the located UWB pulses. - View Dependent Claims (12)
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