In the future of digital home networking, Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology will be used as a wireless communication system to connect various devices like HDTVs, PCs, and Cell phones. One of the major challenges when designing UWB systems is the selection of the appropriate modulation scheme. Although M-ary Pulse Position Modulation (PPM) has better performance than M-ary Pulse Amplitude Modulation (PAM) for M>2 in an UWB environment, it requires more accurate timing synchronization and has a higher computational complexity, particularly for large M.
This book, therefore, provides a hybrid...