Ruben Merz' Publications

Robust IEEE 802.15.4a Energy Detection Receiver Using Statistical Interference Modeling
Citation key	FML-REDRUSIM-09
Author	Flury, Manuel and Merz, Ruben and Le Boudec, Jean-Yves
Title of Book	Proceedings of 43rd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers
Pages	952–956
Year	2009
ISBN	978-1-4244-5825-7
ISSN	1058-6393
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ACSSC.2009.5470021
Location	Pacific Grove, CA, USA
Month	November
Abstract	Energy-detection is appealing for IEEE 802.15.4a receivers as it allows to exploit the ranging capabilities and the multipath resistance of impulse-radio UWB at a reasonable complexity. IEEE 802.15.4a receivers operate with interference created by uncontrolled piconets and an uncoordinated medium access control. Prior work showed that the performance of an energy-detection based receiver is greatly degraded in such scenarios. Hence, we present an interference mitigation algorithm based on statistical interference modeling for energy-detection receivers. This combines a low complexity architecture and robustness to interference. Our performance evaluation shows that our solution decreases the packet error rate significantly.