A Combined Coding and Modulation to Support Both Coherent and Non-coherent Ultra-Wideband Receivers

Tomoko MATSUMOTO
Ryuji KOHNO

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E90-A    No.6    pp.1252-1256
Publication Date: 2007/06/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1337
DOI: 10.1093/ietfec/e90-a.6.1252
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: LETTER
Category: Coding Theory
Keyword: 
ultra-wideband,  low data-rate wireless personal area networks,  super-orthogonal convolutional codes,  

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Summary: 
This letter proposes a simple combined coding and modulation based on super-orthogonal convolutional codes (SOCs) in order to support both coherent and non-coherent ultra-wideband (UWB) receivers. In the proposed scheme, the coherent receivers obtain a coding gain as large as the SOC while simultaneously supporting non-coherent receivers. In addition, their performance can be freely adapted by changing the encoder constraint length and the number of PPM slots according to its application. Thus, the proposal enables a more flexible system design for low data-rate UWB systems.


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