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Impulsive noise in UWB systems and its suppression

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In this paper we investigate the robustness of mixed impulse radio and UWB-OFDM systems under impulsive noise being typical in UWB multiuser environments. We propose a new receiver structure suppressing iteratively the impulse noise without use of an adaptive clipper. Hence, the delicate problem of tracking a (sub)optimal threshold is avoided. The performance of this structure in comparison with a conventional UWB-OFDM receiver is illustrated.

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Youssef Dhibi has studied electrical engineering from 1995 to 2000 at the Duisburg-Essen University and received there his diploma on September 2000. The title of the diploma thesis was “Taktsynchronisierung mit Statistiken höherer Ordnung” (Synchronisation with Higher Order Statistics). Since September 2000 to July 2005 he worked as research assistant (PhD student) in the Department of Communication Systems at the university Duisburg-Essen where he got his PhD in July 2005. The title of the PhD-thesis was “Impulsive Kanalstörungen und deren Einfluss in der Ultrabreitbandigen Übertragung” (Impulsive Noise and its Impact in Ultrawide Band Communications). He is now still in the Department of Communication Systems at the university Duisburg-Essen as research assistant. His research domains are Impulsive Noise and Signal processing for Ultrawide Band Systems.

Thomas Kaiser (SM’04) received the Ph.D. degree in 1995 with distinction and the German habilitation degree in 2000, both from Gerhard-Mercator-University Duisburg and in electrical engineering. From April 2000 to March 2001 he was the head of the Department of Communication Systems at Gerhard-Mercator-University Duisburg and from April 2001 to March 2002 he was the head of the Department of Wireless Chips & Systems (WCS) at Fraunhofer Institute of Microelectronic Circuits and Systems. In summer 2005 he joined Stanford’s Smart Antenna Research Group (SARG) as a visiting professor. Now he is co-leader of the Smart Antenna Research Team (SmART) at University of Duisburg-Essen.

Dr. Kaiser has published more than 80 papers in international journals and at conferences, and he is co-editor of three forthcoming books on Ultra-Wideband systems. Dr. Kaiser is founder of PLANET MIMO Ltd. and belongs to the editorial board of EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing and to the advisory board of a European multi-antenna project. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Signal Processing Society e-letter. His current research interest focuses on applied signal processing with emphasis on multi-antenna systems, especially its applicability to ultra-wideband systems.

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Dhibi, Y., Kaiser, T. Impulsive noise in UWB systems and its suppression. Mobile Netw Appl 11, 441–449 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-006-7192-3

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