How to efficiently detect different data-rate communications in multiuser short-range impulse radio UWB systems

Low and high data-rate applications can be foreseen for future ultra-wideband systems which are based on impulse radio and proper detection schemes have to be designed for the most general scenarios. In this paper, an innovative frequency domain detection strategy is tested in two different indoor short-range communication scenarios where several mobile terminals transmit low or high data-rate flows to a base station. Both Zero Forcing (ZF) and Minimum Mean Square Error (MMSE) criteria have been investigated and compared with the classical RAKE. The results show that the proposed approach is well suited for the considered scenarios.