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Direct Blind Adaptive MOE Receiver for PAM Modulated Time-Hopping UWB System Over Frequency-Selective Fading Channel

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Ultra wideband impulse radio systems have attracted great attention for their promised applications in high-speed short-range indoor wireless communication systems. Among the various modulation and multiple access schemes, this paper deals with time-hopping (TH) antipodal pulse amplitude modulation operating in the presence of a multipath fading downlink channel. We first employ a constrained optimization technique to design a batch mode blind (without exploiting training sequences and undesired users’ time-hopping (TH) codes) mobile station receiver. To reduce the computational complexity, we propose a blind adaptive receiver that is based on the criterion of maximizing the receiver’s minimum possible output energy. The algorithm jointly and iteratively optimizes the weight vector and channel impulse response to improve system performance. Simulation results show that the proposed adaptive receiver converges to the optimum batch mode receiver. Moreover, the algorithms are shown to be robust to multi-user interference and near-far problems.

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Wu, WC. Direct Blind Adaptive MOE Receiver for PAM Modulated Time-Hopping UWB System Over Frequency-Selective Fading Channel. Circuits Syst Signal Process 27, 65–80 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00034-008-9016-0

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