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An Algorithm for Estimating Ep/No of UWB Signals

UWB 신호의 Ep/No 추정 알고리즘

  • 임성빈 (숭실대학교 정보통신전자공학부)
  • Published : 2004.09.01
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Abstract

Recently, the UWB (ultra wide-band) wireless communication technology, which provides high data transmission and is capable of linearly trading between throughput and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), has drawn much attention for short-range wireless networks. Fully exploiting its notable features and minimizing its interference to coexisting other systems require the knowledge of SNR's at receivers In this paper, we propose an algorithm for estimating the pulse energy to noise ratio Ep/No of UWB signal with utilization of outputs from a correlator at a receiver, and evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm through computer simulation. According to simulation results, the maximum standard deviation is about 1 13 dB with a block size of 500. Except for Ep/No=O and 2 dB cases with a block size of 500, no errors greater than 3 dB were observed in all the remaining experiments. Generally speaking, it improves as the true Ep/No, increases and as the block size increases A notable feature of the proposed algorithm is that it does not reduce the effective throughput because the estimation process does not require sending additional training signal of any specific format.

최근 고속의 데이터 전송이 가능하며 전송율과 신호대잡음비를 선형적으로 절충할 수 있는 UWB (ultra wide-band) 무선통신 기술이 근거리 무선 통신망 분야에서 관심이 고조되고 있다. UWB 무선통신 기술의 장점을 활용하고 UWB 시스템과 공존하는 시스템에 대한 간섭을 최소화하기 위해서는 수신 단에서의 신호대잡응비를 알아 야 한다. 본 논문에서는 UWB 신호에 대하여 수신단의 상관기의 출력만을 이용하여 펄스에너지대잡음비 Ep/No 를 추정하는 알고리즘을 제안하고 이 알고리즘의 성능을 모의실험을 통하여 평가하였다 모의실험 결과에 의하면 추정치의 평균값은 신호의 실제 Ep/No에 대하여 표준편차는 최대 1.l3dB 이내 이며 실제 값과 추정치간의 오차가 $\pm$3dB 이상 발생한 경우는 블록 크기가 500이며 Ep/No 가 2dB 경우에서만 발생하고 나머지 경우에서는 발생 하지 않았다 전반적으로 신호의 실제 Ep/No 가 증가할수록 정밀도가 증가하고 사용된 데이터 블록의 크기가 증가 할수록 추정 성능도 비례하여 개선되는 것으로 나타났다. 제안된 알고리즘의 특징은 추정 과정에서 추가척언 특정 형태의 훈련용 신호를 전송하지 않기 때문에 유효 데이터 전송률을 감소시키지 않는다는 점이다.

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