• [June 2009] Manuel Flury, Ruben Merz and Jean-Yves Le Boudec, received the Best Poster Award at the 2009 NCCR MICS Workshop for their work on: "Clock-Offset Tracking Software Algorithms for IR-UWB Energy Detection Receivers".
• [May 2007] Ruben Merz wrote an article on the MICS UWB Network for the May 2007 issue of the MICS Newsletter, check it out here (.pdf, page 5).
• [January 2007] European Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) Radio Technology Workshop, Grenoble, France, May 10-11 2007.
• [October 2006] Ruben Merz and Jean-Yves Le Boudec, received a Best Demo Award at the 2006 MICS Scientific Conference for the demo: "An Impulse-Radio Ultra-Wide Band Testbed with Interference" (see associated poster) along with members of the MICS UWB Network.
• [July 2006] There is a new version of our modified ns-2 for UWB wireless networking. Our code now runs with ns-2.29.
• [November 2005] We hosted the 2005 edition of the Workshop on UWB for Sensor Networks (UWB4SN 2005). The program and the slides are available online.
• [September 2005] Our paper, "Conditional Bit Error Rate for an Impulse Radio UWB Channel with Interfering Users", by Ruben Merz and Jean-Yves Le Boudec received the second best student paper award at the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICU 2005) in Zürich, Switzerland.

• Optimal organisation and architecture for impulse-radio UWB networks
  • Optimal power control, scheduling and routing in UWB networks.
  • DCC-MAC: an innovative MAC protocol for UWB networks using rate adaptation and no power control.

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• Effect of interference and interference mitigation in impulse-radio UWB networks
  • Interference matters in UWB networks. It does not need to be prevented, but it needs to be managed.
  • We are developing practical schemes to take interference into account in UWB networks, for synchronization and detection, and ranging and localization.

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• Tools and methods for the simulation and performance evaluation of impulse-radio UWB networks
  • UWB MAC and PHY simulator for ns-2 with an implementation of the DCC-MAC protocol.
  • For computing the BER and PER of impulse-radio UWB physical layers, we are applying large deviation and importance sampling techniques (paper.)
• Impulse-radio UWB interference hardware testbed
  • We are developing an impulse-radio UWB testbed to study the impact of interference on UWB receivers. This testbed is also flexible enough to easily allow to test new research ideas as well as receiver algorithms.
  • This is a joint project with people from the MICS UWB Network.

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Click here to obtain a list of all our publications related to UWB.

• Journal papers
• Conference papers
• Patents
• Research reports

In addition, we have some posters published at the yearly NCCR-MICS Scientific Conference.

Simulation Code

• UWB MAC and PHY simulator for ns-2 as well as the NOAH routing agent.
• Simulation code of several publications.

• Jean-Yves Le Boudec
• Manuel Flury
• Hai Zhan (at CSEM)
• Uday Kiran Pulleti
• Ruben Merz, now at Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Berlin

We are members of the MICS UWB Network. The MICS UWB network is a group of MICS members actively doing research on several aspects of UWB communications.

Here is a list of former collaborators and of undergraduate students that worked for us.

We are supported (in part) by the National Competence Center in Research on Mobile Information and Communication Systems (NCCR-MICS), a center supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation under grant number 5005-67322, by CTI contract No7109.2;1 ESPP-ES, and by STMicroelectronics in Geneva, Switzerland.

Former UWB web page maintained by Jörg Widmer.