Space temporal interference cancellation using TDL array antenna and waveform based OMF for IR-UWB systems

This paper provides a space temporal interference cancellation method for ultra wide-band (UWB) communication systems based on combination of tapped delay line array antenna and orthogonal matched filter. In order to reduce the interference from the other system using overlapping frequency band, space domain signal processing such as an array antenna has been proposed. However, principal array antenna cannot be applied to impulse radio (IR) UWB because IR-UWB does not have carrier signal. In this paper, we propose a novel tapped delay line array antenna combined with orthogonal matched filter detector. From the numerical evaluation, we show that the proposed system can make null direction to face to the interference signal direction. Additionally, we show that the proposed system can reduce interference signal even if the interference signal has equivalent pulse shape and equivalent incoming direction.