A study on cooperative interference detection for UWB systems

Ultra-WideBand (UWB) system shares the same frequency band with the other wireless communication systems. It is, however, necessary to detect the presence of the other wireless systems as primary systems in order to avoid interference to them. For this purpose, the energy detection method detects the presence of the primary system based on the observed energy at individual UWB device. On the other hand, in the cooperative-detection method, a master UWB device gathers the received signals from slave UWB devices and detects the presence of the primary system by combining the signals. However, the cooperative method does not consider spacial positions of the UWB devices and the primary system. In this paper, we propose a new detection method based on a combination of the received signals at more than two UWB devices. Although the conventional cooperative-detector provides one result, the proposed detector can provide some results for each UWB device. By computer simulations, we show an availability of the proposed method by comparing with the conventional one.