Ultra-wideband (UWB) communication link modeling and characterization

This paper introduces modeling of a ultra-wideband (UWB) communication link, using two monopole antennas, in terms of the singularity expansion method (SEM) via Prony's method. Prony's Method is used to extract poles and residues of the link. By obtaining the poles and residues of the link it is possible to construct a transfer function of the link in both time and frequency domains. This representation is a convenient way of characterizing and modeling a UWB communication system with a reduced number of parameters.