Siwiak-UWB-Tutorial-description

South Florida Operations ¶/¶t TimeDerivative 10988 NW 14th Street International Coral Springs, FL 33071-8222 Course Description: UWB Radio Technology Based on their new book, Ultra-wideband Radio Technology, Wiley: UK, 2004, authors Siwiak and McKeown trace UWB technology through history, regulations, standards, system implementations and commercial applications. They strike a judicious balance between sufficient technical detail for the seasoned practitioner, and practical and strategic observations to benefit technology managers, marketers and potential investors in the technology. There has been a recent surge of invention and commercialization interest following the FCC’s “Report and Order” which legalizes an unprecedented access to more than 7.5 GHz of unlicensed UWB spectrum in the US. Methods of generating and modulating UWB signals are described and set in the context of UWB proposals for IEEE802 Standards. Interesting UWB antenna, radiation, and propagation phenomena, including unique behavior in multipath, are presented in contrast with narrow band radio. Examples of UWB link margins including data throughput versus range and system data capacity (up to 2 Gb/s) are compared with conventional and much higher power 802.11a/b systems. The future of UWB is a judicious mix of wireless communications, precision positioning and radar. UWB can enable an accurate indoor adjunct to GPS with centimeter accuracy. Discussions of ...