Error Probability Analysis of Time-Hopping Biorthogonal Pulse Position Modulation UWB Systems with a RAKE Receiver over Indoor Multi-Path Fading Channels

This paper presents the error probability analysis of Time-Hopping Biorthogonal Pulse Position Modulation (TH-BPPM) ultra-wideband (UWB) systems with a RAKE receiver over indoor multi-path fading channels. UWB signals suffer from severe multi-path interference when employed in an indoor fading environment. A RAKE receiver can be used to improve the performance of UWB systems. TH-BPPM has attracted much attention in recent years due to its many advantages, such as low probability of error and low complexity. In this paper, the IEEE 802.15.3a indoor channel model is employed to analyze the performance of TH-BPPM UWB systems with different RAKE receivers. The bit error rate (BER) of ARake, PRake, and SRake TH-BPPM UWB systems is derived. The results indicate that ARake has the best performance, SRake is better than PRake when the number of fingers is same.