Contribución a la regulación de la tecnología UWB en Europa= Contribution to UWB technology regulation in Europe

Resum

Ultra wideband technology (UWB) has gained great interest in the scientific and industrial communities due to its high potential advantages. However, the need for the spectrum to be shared between UWB and the other services it overlaps with, has been a source of controversy during the last years. This work collects part of the research activity developed so far in the field of compatibility studies between IR-UWB and other radio services operating in bands potentially affected by UWB, in this case GSM and UMTS. The objective of this research has been the quantification of the performance degradation on the GSM and UMTS when they suffer from IR-UWB single and/or aggregate interference. As a result of that, proposals on maximum mean UWB power spectral density have been defined and presented at the regulatory bodies in charge of the UWB regulation process in Europe.