BER regression analysis of DS-UWB based WPAN

Ultra-Wideband (UWB) radio is a viable candidate for short-range multiple access communications in dense multipath environments. This paper analyzes the efficiency of Direct Sequence - UWB physical layer standard proposal in a indoor environment with fixed transmitters and receiver positions. The performance evaluation is carried out using the UWB channel model provided by the IEEE 802.15 channel modelling subcommittee to model the dense multipath indoor environment typical of the UWB system. DS-UWB architecture has been implemented using a Matlab Simulink tool and simulation results are evaluated in terms of Bit Error Rate (BER) vs. transmitter-receiver distance and noise power spectral density. Moreover, a polynomial regression analysis is carried out on simulation results in order to obtain a closed formula to describe, for different scenarios, the BER as a function of data rates, noise Power Spectral Density (PSD) and distance between the transmitter and receiver. © 2007 IEEE.