Link Budget Design with Performance Evaluation of Tunable Impulse-Based Ultra Wideband to Support the Integration of Wireless Sensing and Identifications Infrastructures

Mohammed Seed Jawad, Widad Ismail, Ayman Hajjawi, Othman Abdul Rani, Azahari Saleh

Faculty of Electronics and Computer Engineering (FKEKK), Univeristi Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM), Durrian Tunggal, Malaysia.

DOI: 10.4236/jst.2014.43012                

Abstract

Recently, many studies propose the use of ultra-wideband technology for passive and active radio frequency identification systems as well as for wireless sensor networks due to its numerous advantages. By harvesting these advantages of IR-UWB technology at the physical-layer design, this paper proposes that a cross layer architecture platform can be considered as a good integrator for different wireless short-ranges indoor protocols into a universal smart wireless-tagged architecture with new promising applications in cognitive radio for future applications. Adaptive transmission algorithms have been studied to show the trade-off between different specific QoS requirements, transmission rates and distances at the physical layer level and this type of dynamic optimization and reconfiguration leads to the cross-layer design proposal in the paper. Studies from both theoretical simulation and statistical indoor environments experiments are considered as a proof of concept for the proposed architecture.

Keywords

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Ultra-Wideband (UWB), Impulse-Based Ultra-Wideband (IR-UWB), Cognitive Radio (CR), Time Hopping Pulse Position Modulation (TH-PPM), Quality of Service (QoS)

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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