**Meet the editor**

Dr. Mohammad A Matin is currently working at EEE department, Institut Teknologi Brunei (ITB) as an Associate Professor. He obtained his MSc degree in digital communication from Loughborough University, UK and a PhD degree in wireless communication from Newcastle University, UK. He has taught several courses in communications, electronics and signal processing at North

South University, KUET, Khulna University, and BRAC University during his career. Dr. Matin was the visiting academic staff at the National University of Malaysia (UKM) and university of Malaya (UM). He has published over 50 refereed journals and conference papers. He is the author of three academic books and few book chapters. He is currently serving as a member of the editorial board of several international journals such as IET Wireless Sensor Systems (IET-WSS), IJCTE, JECE, etc. His current research interests include UWB communication, wireless sensor networks, cognitive radio, EM modeling, and antenna engineering.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

M. A. Matin

Chapter 2 **Timing Synchronisation** 

Chapter 1 **Ultra-Wideband RF Transceiver 1** 

Chapter 3 **Radar Sensing Using Ultra Wideband** 

Huanan Yu and Shuxu Guo

**– Design and Implementation 41**  Xubo Wang, Anh Dinh and Daniel Teng

Chapter 4 **Compressed Sensing: Ultra-Wideband Channel** 

Chapter 5 **The UWB Channel in Medical Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) 85** 

Chapter 6 **Cooperative Communication over Multi-Scale and Multi-Lag Wireless Channels 103** 

Chapter 7 **Ultra-Wideband Antenna and Design 127** 

Chapter 8 **Architecture and Design Procedure of a Generic SWB Antenna with Superb Performances for Tactical Commands and Ubiquitous Communications 153** 

> D. Tran, N. Haider, S. E. Valavan, I. E. Lager, A. Szilagyi, O. Yarovyi and L. P. Ligthart

**Design for UWB Applications 185** 

H. Lu, T. Xu and H. Nikookar

Xian Ling Liang

Chapter 9 **Active Integrated Antenna** 

Danial Nezhad Malayeri

**Estimation Based on FIR Filtering Matrix 65** 

Carlos Pomalaza-Ráez and Attaphongse Taparugssanagorn

**for IR-UWB Communication Systems 15**  Rshdee Alhakim, Kosai Raoof and Emmanuel Simeu
