| Abstract: | In this paper, the performance of UWB (ultrawide bandwidth) radio systems under impulsive noise environment (INE) is investigated. At first, the Middleton's class a model is used as a model of impulsive noise (IN), we investigate the statistical characteristics of in-phase and quadrature components of IN, and it is proved that unlike Gaussian noise (GN), they are dependent especially to IN with small impulsive indices, Then, making use of this dependence between in-phase and quadrature components, an ovel UWB radio receiver designed for IN is proposed. The exact expression for the average BER (bit error rate) of this receiver, which is a function of SNR (signal to noise power ratio) and threshold value, is derived. Thirdly, we'll discuss the optimum threshold value. We'll also estimate the performance of UWB radio systems with the proposed receiver designed for IN and with the conventional receiver designed for GN in INE. Numerical results show that the performance achieved by the proposed UWB radio receiver is much etter than that of the conventional UWB radio receiver. Meanwhile, it is shown that both impulsive index and threshold value have much effect on the performance of UWB radio system s under the condition of INE |
