Keywords
UWB, Ultrawide Band, OFDM, Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, timing errors, timing synchronization, digital communications, electrical engineering, Tikhonov probability density function (pdf)
Abstract
Emerging Ultra Wideband (UWB) Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) systems hold the promise of delivering wireless data at high speeds, exceeding hundreds of megabits per second over typical distances of 10 meters or less. The purpose of this Thesis is to estimate the timing accuracies required with such systems in order to achieve Bit Error Rates (BER) of the order of magnitude of 10-12 and thereby avoid overloading the correction of irreducible errors due to misaligned timing errors to a small absolute number of bits in error in real-time relative to a data rate of hundreds of megabits per second. Our research approach involves managing bit error rates through identifying maximum timing synchronization errors. Thus, it became our research goal to determine the timing accuracies required to avoid operation of communication systems within the asymptotic region of BER flaring at low BERs in the resultant BER curves. We propose pushing physical layer bit error rates to below 10-12 before using forward error correction (FEC) codes. This way, the maximum reserve is maintained for the FEC hardware to correct for burst as well as recurring bit errors due to corrupt bits caused by other than timing synchronization errors.
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Graduation Date
2004
Semester
Fall
Advisor
Jones, W. Linwood
Degree
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (M.S.E.E.)
College
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Degree Program
Electrical Engineering
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
CFE0000197
URL
http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0000197
Language
English
Release Date
December 2004
Length of Campus-only Access
None
Access Status
Masters Thesis (Open Access)
STARS Citation
Bates, Lakesha, "Analysis Of Time Synchronization Errors In High Data Rate Ultrawideban" (2004). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 163.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/163