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A Survey on Various Coherent and Non-coherent IR-UWB Receivers

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The recent developments in radio technologies, paves its way to impulse radio (IR) ultra-wideband (UWB) communication, which is used for low power, short range and high bandwidth communication, thereby exploiting a large portion of radio spectrum. In this paper, a brief review of the work done by various researchers on coherent and non-coherent IR-UWB receivers has been analysed, based on their bit error rate (BER) performances, as well as pros and cons of using these receivers. An in depth study on the receivers concludes that, non-coherent IR-UWB receiver is preferred over its counterpart coherent IR-UWB receiver even though it comes at the expense of poor BER performance. The simulation results prove that, though the performances are same, the low complexity of energy detector (ED) receivers gives an edge over the autocorrelation receivers. Further, ED receiver suffers from noise, which paves way to using weighted ED (WED) receiver. The superiority of WED receivers over all the other non-coherent UWB receivers is further confirmed by the simulation performed in AWGN and IEEE 802.15.4a UWB channels. It can also be concluded from the review that, some special receivers such as generalized likelihood ratio test, multi-symbol differential detector and decision feedback differential transmitted reference, when clubbed with UWB systems, lead to further improvement in BER performance.

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Hazra, R., Tyagi, A. A Survey on Various Coherent and Non-coherent IR-UWB Receivers. Wireless Pers Commun 79, 2339–2369 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-014-1988-4

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