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Cooperative Impulse Radio Ultra-Wideband Communication Using Coherent and Non-Coherent Detectors: A Review

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Ultra-wideband (UWB) is a booming technology in the field of wireless communication. This paper presents a brief idea related to the various coherent and non-coherent IR-UWB detectors. Due to the limitation in transmit power spectral density of UWB system, the major challenges faced by UWB system includes, achieving Quality of Service, system performance and coverage area. So, the combination of UWB system with cooperative communication will not only improve the system performance, but also help in expanding coverage area of signals. A brief review of the work done by various researchers in the field of cooperative impulse radio (IR) UWB communication is also presented in this paper. The working principle and performance analysis of the various coherent and non-coherent IR-UWB detectors using cooperative relay strategies are also discussed at large in this paper. The various fixed cooperative relay strategies used for cooperative UWB communication is Amplify and Forward, Decode and Forward and Detect and Forward. From the simulation results it can be inferred that, even though IR-UWB DTR receiver gives a much better BER performance than IR-UWB ED receiver using both cooperative and non-cooperative strategies, yet ED receiver is preferred because of its less complexity and low power consumption. Future prospects in the field of cooperative IR-UWB communication have also been discussed in this paper.

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Abbreviations

AC:

Autocorrelation

AF:

Amplify and forward

ARAKE:

All RAKE

ATR:

Average transmitted reference

BC:

Broadcast

BEP:

Bit error probability

BER:

Bit error rate

BPF:

Bandpass filter

CF:

Characteristic function

CIR:

Channel impulse response

CSI:

Channel state information

DF:

Decode and forward

DS:

Direct sequence

DTF:

Detect and forward

DTR:

Differential transmitted reference

ED:

Energy detector

EGC:

Equal gain combining

FCC:

Federal communications commission

FDD:

Frequency division duplex

FR:

Fixed relaying

GLRT:

Generalized likelihood ratio test

IR:

Impulse radio

LOS:

Line of sight

MA:

Multiple access

MD:

Multiple-differential

MF:

Matched filter

MGF:

Moment generating function

MinMax-RS:

Minimax relay selection

MMSE:

Minimum mean square estimation

MP-RS:

Maximum product relay section

MRC:

Maximal ratio combining

MUD:

Multi-user detector

MUI:

Multi-user interference

NB:

Narrowband

NC:

Network coding

NCBC:

Network coded broadcasting

NLOS:

Non line of sight

OOK:

On-off keying

PAM:

Pulse amplitude modulation

PDP:

Power delay profile

PDR:

Packet delivery ratio

PNC:

Physical network coding

PPM:

Pulse position modulation

PRAKE:

Partial combining RAKE

PSD:

Power spectral density

QoS:

Quality of service

RC:

Relay combining

SC:

Selection combining

SOVA:

Soft output viterbi decoding algorithm

SR:

Selective relaying

SRAKE:

Selective combining RAKE

SUD:

Single user detector

S–V:

Saleh–Venezuela

TDD:

Time division duplex

TDMA:

Time division multiple access

TH:

Time hop

TR:

Transmitted reference

TRPC:

Transmitted reference pulse cluster

UCoRS:

UWB based cooperative retransmission scheme

UWB:

Ultra-wideband

WED:

Weighted energy detector

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Hazra, R., Tyagi, A. Cooperative Impulse Radio Ultra-Wideband Communication Using Coherent and Non-Coherent Detectors: A Review. Wireless Pers Commun 77, 719–748 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-013-1533-x

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