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Poster: Impulse radio UWB testbed for indoor and sensor network applications

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A compact testbed for real-time Ultra-Wideband (UWB) wireless system performance evaluation in terms of un-coded bit-error rate is presented. Both the transmitter and the receiver are realized in form of a small PCB. The system operates in the frequency range from 3.1--5.0 GHz with a maximum data rate of 10 MBit/s. By means of two examples this poster illustrates possible applications of the testbed.
In the first measurement presented in the poster, the performance of different UWB antennas is compared. In the second example, measurements involving the influence of the human body are performed in order to evaluate the real-world performance of Impulse radio UWB (IR-UWB) communication systems for body area and sensor network applications.

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      SenSys '11: Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
      November 2011
      452 pages
      ISBN:9781450307185
      DOI:10.1145/2070942

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      Published: 01 November 2011

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      1. BER
      2. UWB
      3. hardware
      4. testbed
      5. wireless

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