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Channel shortening equalizer for multi-access TH-UWB in the presence of multipath and multiuser interference

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In this paper a novel channel shortening equalizer (CSE) for time hopping ultra wideband (TH-UWB) multiple access system with pulse position modulation (PPM) is presented. As UWB channels have very long impulse responses as compared to the narrow pulse width, CSE can reduce the number of correlators. In UWB systems, due to the received pulse that is very similar to the channel impulse response (CIR), the proposed algorithm maximizes the shortening signal to inter-symbol and multiuser interferences ratio (SSINR), defined as the ratio of the received signal energy inside the desired window to the energy in the wall and multiuser interference. The existence of the proposed CSE before correlation receiver decreases the complexity of the receiver architecture by significantly reducing the number of effective channel taps. Further we extend our method to derive general expression for the bit error rate (BER) performance in the presence of inter-symbol and multiuser interferences. Computer simulation results are provided to compare the performance of the proposed method with a MSSNR CSE, lower bound, also known as All-Rake, Partial-Rake, and Selective-Rake in terms of Rake operational temporal windows and BER.

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    Noureddine B. Benotmane & Sidahmed Elahmar

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Original Russian Text © N.B. Benotmane, S. Elahmar, 2017, published in Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radioelektronika, 2017, Vol. 60, No. 8, pp. 438–450.

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Benotmane, N.B., Elahmar, S. Channel shortening equalizer for multi-access TH-UWB in the presence of multipath and multiuser interference. Radioelectron.Commun.Syst. 60, 339–349 (2017). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0735272717080027

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