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can be written as
𝑏
(𝑘)
r
(𝑡)=
𝑁
s
2
−1
𝑗=0
𝐸
TR
p
𝑎
(𝑘)
𝑗
𝑝(𝑡 −𝑗2𝑇
TR
f
− 𝑐
(𝑘)
𝑗
𝑇
p
),
𝑏
(𝑘)
d
(𝑡)=
𝑁
s
2
−1
𝑗=0
𝐸
TR
p
𝑎
(𝑘)
𝑗
𝑝(𝑡 −𝑗2𝑇
TR
f
− 𝑐
(𝑘)
𝑗
𝑇
p
− 𝑇
r
)
(4)
where 𝑏
(𝑘)
d
(𝑡) is equal to a version of 𝑏
(𝑘)
r
(𝑡) delayed by 𝑇
r
.
In TH signaling, {𝑐
(𝑘)
𝑗
} is the pseudo-random sequence of the
𝑘th user, where 𝑐
(𝑘)
𝑗
is an integer in the range 0 ≤ 𝑐
(𝑘)
𝑗
<𝑁
h
,
and 𝑁
h
is the maximum allowable integer shift. The bipolar
random amplitude sequence {𝑎
(𝑘)
𝑗
} together with the TH
sequence are used to mitigate interference and to support
multiple access. The essential duration of the unit energy
bandpass pulse 𝑝(𝑡) is 𝑇
p
and its center frequency is 𝑓
c
.The
energy of the transmitted pulse is 𝐸
TR
p
= 𝐸
TR
s
/𝑁
s
where
𝐸
TR
s
is the symbol energy associated with TR signaling. Note
that the transmitted energy is equally allocated among 𝑁
s
/2
reference pulses and 𝑁
s
/2 modulated pulses. The duration of
the received UWB pulse is 𝑇
g
= 𝑇
p
+ 𝑇
d
,where𝑇
d
is the
maximum excess delay of the channel. We consider 𝑇
r
≥ 𝑇
g
and (𝑁
h
− 1)𝑇
p
+ 𝑇
r
+ 𝑇
g
≤ 2𝑇
TR
f
,where𝑇
r
is the time
separation between each pair of data and reference pulses
to preclude intra-symbol interference (isi) and inter-symbol
interference (ISI).
3) UWB BPPM Nodes: In this case, the transmitted signal
for user 𝑘 can be expressed as
𝑠
(𝑘)
BPPM
(𝑡)=
𝑖
(1 + 𝑑
(𝑘)
𝑖
)
2
𝑏
(𝑘)
1
(𝑡 − 𝑖𝑇
s
)
+
(1 − 𝑑
(𝑘)
𝑖
)
2
𝑏
(𝑘)
2
(𝑡 − 𝑖𝑇
s
)
(5)
where 𝑑
(𝑘)
𝑖
∈{−1, 1} is the 𝑖th data symbol and 𝑇
s
=
𝑁
s
2
𝑇
ED
f
is the symbol duration with 𝑁
s
and 𝑇
TR
f
denoting the number
of pulses per symbol and the average pulse repetition period,
respectively.
1
The transmitted signal for 𝑑
(𝑘)
𝑖
=+1and 𝑑
(𝑘)
𝑖
=
−1 can be written, respectively, as
𝑏
(𝑘)
1
(𝑡)=
𝑁
s
2
−1
𝑗=0
𝐸
ED
p
𝑎
(𝑘)
𝑗
𝑝(𝑡 − 𝑗𝑇
ED
f
− 𝑐
(𝑘)
𝑗
𝑇
p
),
𝑏
(𝑘)
2
(𝑡)=
𝑁
s
2
−1
𝑗=0
𝐸
ED
p
𝑎
(𝑘)
𝑗
𝑝(𝑡 − 𝑗𝑇
ED
f
− 𝑐
(𝑘)
𝑗
𝑇
p
− Δ)
(6)
where the parameter Δ is the time shift between two different
data symbols and the rest of the terms in (6) are defined
similarly as in (4). For BPPM with non-coherent receivers, the
bipolar random amplitude sequence {𝑎
(𝑘)
𝑗
} can only serve the
purpose of spectrum smoothing. The energy of the transmitted
pulse is then 𝐸
ED
p
=
2𝐸
ED
s
𝑁
s
,where𝐸
ED
s
is the symbol energy
1
Note that we set 𝑇
TR
f
=
𝑇
ED
f
2
so that the symbol durations of the two
signaling schemes are the same.
associated with BPPM. Note that the position modulation is
used and the transmitted energy is allocated among 𝑁
s
/2
modulated pulses. To preclude isi and ISI, we assume Δ ≥ 𝑇
g
and (𝑁
h
− 1)𝑇
p
+Δ+𝑇
g
≤ 𝑇
ED
f
.
C. Wireless Propagation Characteristics
1) NB Propagation: We consider that the impulse response
of the NB channel between the 𝑛-th interferer and the UWB
receiver is given by
ℎ
(𝑛)
N
(𝑡)=
1
𝑅
𝜈
𝑛
𝛼
𝑛
𝑒
𝜎
I
𝐺
𝑛
𝛿(𝑡 − 𝜏
𝑛
). (7)
We consider 𝛼
𝑛
to be Rayleigh distributed with 𝔼{∣𝛼
𝑛
∣
2
} =1,
which is an appropriate model when the signals are NB [41],
[42]. The term 𝜏
𝑛
accounts for the asynchronism between the
interferers. The shadowing term 𝑒
𝜎
I
𝐺
𝑛
follows a log-normal
distribution with shadowing parameter 𝜎
I
and 𝐺
𝑛
∽ 𝒩(0, 1).
2
According to the far-field assumption, the signal power decays
as 1/𝑅
2𝜈
𝑛
,where𝜈 is the amplitude loss exponent and 𝑅
𝑛
is
the distance between the 𝑛th interferer and the UWB receiver.
3
2) UWB Propagation: We consider that the impulse re-
sponse of the UWB channel is given by [12], [14]
ℎ
U
(𝑡)=
1
𝑅
𝜈
U
𝑒
𝜎
U
𝐺
U
ℎ
U
(𝑡) (8)
where
ℎ
U
(𝑡)=
𝐿
𝑙=1
ℎ
𝑙
𝛿(𝑡 − 𝜏
𝑙
) (9)
with ℎ
𝑙
and 𝜏
𝑙
representing the attenuation and the delay of
the 𝑙th path component, respectively. We consider a resolvable
dense multipath channel, i.e., ∣𝜏
𝑙
− 𝜏
𝑗
∣≥𝑇
p
, ∀𝑙 ∕= 𝑗,where
𝜏
𝑙
= 𝜏
1
+(𝑙 −1)𝑇
p
,and{ℎ
𝑙
}
𝐿
𝑙=1
are statistically independent
random variables (r.v.’s). We can express ℎ
𝑙
= ∣ℎ
𝑙
∣exp (𝑗𝜙
𝑙
),
where 𝜙
𝑙
=0or 𝜋 with equal probability. We consider that
the terms
1
𝑅
𝜈
U
and 𝑒
𝜎
U
𝐺
U
representing the path-loss and the
shadowing in (8) are quasi-static, and therefore can be treated
as constant gains introduced by the UWB channel. Thus, for
simplicity, we will use ℎ
U
(𝑡) instead of
ℎ
U
(𝑡) to represent the
channel impulse response between the UWB transmitter and
the UWB receiver for the rest of the paper.
III. BEP
IN THE ABSENCE OF INTERFERENCE
A. AcR-TR-BPAM
As shown in Fig. 2, the AcR first passes the received signal
through an ideal bandpass zonal filter (BPZF) with center
frequency 𝑓
c
to eliminate out-of-band noise [27], [31]. If the
bandwidth 𝑊 of the BPZF is large enough, then the signal
spectrum will pass through the filter undistorted. In the rest
of the paper, we focus on a single UWB user system and
we will suppress the index 𝑘 for notational simplicity. In the
absence of interference, the received signal can be expressed
as 𝑟
TR
(𝑡)=ℎ
U
(𝑡) ∗ 𝑠
TR
(𝑡)+𝑛(𝑡),where𝑛(𝑡) is zero-mean,
2
We use 𝒩 (0,𝜎
2
) to denote a Gaussian distribution with zero-mean and
variance 𝜎
2
.
3
Note that the amplitude loss exponent is 𝜈, while the corresponding power
loss exponent is 2𝜈. The parameter 𝜈 can approximately range from 0.8 (e.g.
hallways inside buildings) to 4 (e.g. dense urban environment), where 𝜈 =1
corresponds to free space propagation [43].