High-Throughput Ranging with UWB Smartdust

Contact: Jean-Yves Le Boudec

Site: Doctoral School Proposals

Assume a number of mobile objects (robots, people wearing glasses, watches etc) are equipped witj UWB impulse radio very low power tags. The tags periodically beacon their position. We would like to be able to perform the joint localization of all objects in parallel. It may be required to force the tags to obey some distributed MAC protocol to help the localisation.

More information and starting points can be found on the EPFL UWB project web page uwb.epfl.ch

A starting point may be based on the following papers.

  1. Performance Evaluation of an IEEE 802.15.4a Physical Layer with Energy Detection and Multi-User Interference. Flury, Manuel ; Merz, Ruben ; Le Boudec, Jean-Yves ; Zory, Julien Presented at: IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB 2007), Singapore, 24-26 September 2007 pdf
  2. High-Resolution Impulse Radio Ultra Wideband Zhan, Hai ; Ayadi, Jaouhar ; Farserotu, John ; Le Boudec, Jean-Yves Presented at: ICUWB 2007, Singapore, September 24-26, 2007 pdf
  3. Sampling Moments and Reconstructing Signals of Finite Rate of Innovation: Shannon Meets Strang-Fix Dragotti, Pier Luigi ; Vetterli, Martin ; Blu, Thierry In: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 55, num. 5, Part 1, 2007, p. 1741-1757 pdf

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Distribution technology