Wireless Baseband Transmission Experiments

Jun-ichi KITAGAWA
Tetsuki TANIGUCHI
Yoshio KARASAWA

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E89-B    No.6    pp.1815-1824
Publication Date: 2006/06/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
DOI: 10.1093/ietcom/e89-b.6.1815
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Wireless Communication Technologies
Keyword: 
wireless baseband transmission,  Manchester encoding,  discone antenna,  ultra wide band,  

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Summary: 
A baseband transmission scheme for wireless communications has been proposed and examined using a pair of discone antennas for transmission and reception. The wireless baseband transmission scheme radiates a baseband signal stream, such as non-return-to-zero (NRZ), return-to-zero (RZ), or Manchester encoded signals, directly from an antenna. Namely, a carrier in terms of a sinusoidal radio wave or light wave is not used in the transmission. In experiments, baseband pulses generated with a data generator were radiated directly from the discone antenna, and received waveforms were observed with a digital storage oscilloscope. The experiments showed that wireless baseband transmission is realisable when using antennas with a flat amplitude spectrum and a linear phase characteristic, such as discone antennas, over a given band. Manchester encoding is promising for this wireless baseband transmission.