Hybrid UWB Multi-Piconet Network Interference Modeling and Performance Enhancement by 6-Bands MB-OFDM

• Main Authors: Yang Zeng, Ning Han, Sung Hwan Sohn, Jae-Moung Kim
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Subjects: Bit error rate; Bluetooth; FCC; Inter-piconet interference; Interference; MB-OFDM; Network topology; Next generation networking; Personal area networks; Protocols; Solid modeling; System performance; UWB; WPAN
• ISSN: 1738-9445
• DOI: 10.1109/ICACT.2007.358480

UWB (ultra-wide band) system that utilizes the unlicensed 3.1 - 10.6 GHz UWB band, as regulated in the United States by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Regulations, and there is a trend that UWB and Bluetooth technology are combined together for developing a next-generation low-power, low-cost ad hoc networking solution that will expand Bluetooth technology's current success. In this paper, we propose a novel piconet system model in which Bluetooth topology and MB-OFDM UWB devices are combined together to form a new ad hoc piconet system. For our proposed system, first, we used Bluetooth piconet's topology as reference to construct our proposed system's topology, considering both the path-loss effect and the using of TFC code to model our proposed scheme's inter-piconet interference. Second, we use the BER graph to evaluate our proposed system's performance taking into account of the Inter-piconet Interference influence, furthermore, we propose a 6-Bands MB-OFDM model to enhance our network's BER performance. Definitely, our model can be considered to provide a solid foundation for future interference aware UWB-Bluetooth protocols.