The goal of this project is to build a simulation environment for the system and to compare different compressed sensing strategies within this setting.
Ultra-Wideband (UWB) communications is a technology for wireless communication systems which require high bandwidth, low-power consumption and shared spectrum resources, mainly for short-distance high-data-rate applications. In UWB impulse radio communications, a pulse in the order of Nano-seconds is typically used as the elementary pulse shaping to carry information. This leads to several advantages in transmission, however UWB receivers face some difficulties. The extremely high bandwidth of the received UWB signal requires high-speed ADCs. For example, oversampling of the received UWB signal is required to improve timing synchronization and channel estimation, but the actual rates required are not feasible. Therefore, new approaches for UWB receivers are necessary. In this project, we consider an UWB communication system with compressed sensing based channel estimation.