Development of Location Centric Networks
Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Impulse radio communicate by using a sequence of short pulses. UWB can potentially provide a solution for low cost, mid/high data rate communication link. More importantly it has the advantage of being able to include ranging/location capability in each node. Due to the large signal bandwidth, UWB can potentially achieve high accuracy ranging and when incorporated with network functionality the ability to achieve accurate geo-location.
Background & Objective: MERL has successfully built and demonstrated an UWB Impulse radio network that communicates data and produces ranging and location estimates between transceivers. The range estimates serve as data for a network positioning algorithm that then computes the location of the radios. The radios are based on the published IEEE 802.15.4a standard which MERL helped develop. One of the challenges for impulse radio UWB is to implement such a system with low cost and high performance. The objective of this project is to demonstrate low cost radio location techniques.
Contacts:
Philip Orlik
Johnas Cukier
Chunjie Duan
Jinyun Zhang
Technology Area: Digital Communications
Modification Date: September 20, 2007
