In this paper, millimeter-wave radar cross section (RCS) characteristics for rough surface is investigated by means of an approximation method of the magnetic field integral equation and the feasibility of road condition sensing is discussed. The RCS measurement at 94 GHz is carried out in order to verify the numerical result, thereby the numerical results are in good agreement with the measured RCS. The dependence of RCS on the radar incidence angle and surface roughness is investigated where the cross-polarized RCS characteristic is also considered.

This paper shows direct-sequence spread-spectrum (SS/DS) block demodulator employing crosscorrelation canceller. The crosscorrelation cancellation can be realized by adding a matrix calculator in conventional SS/DS block demodulator. In the SS/DS block demodulator, PN-codes assigned to all SS/DS users can be detected by processing the received signal stored in memory recursively. Next the correlation values between PN-codes are calculated, and then the received signal is processed algebraically by the cancellation matrix composed of the correlation values. As a result, it can provide high capacity per unit bandwidth. The simulation results show that the capacity per unit bandwidth is around 45% when PN-code length is 127 chips (Process Gain = 21 dB) and input SNR is higher than -6 dB, and the good near-far resistance capability can be achieved.

This paper shows a heterodyne-typed autocorrelator for direct-sequence spread-spectrum (SS-DS) communications, without using local despreading PN-code and active synchronization circuit. In our proposed autocorrelator, the transmitting SS-DS signal is frequency-converted on every second data by the unique frequency assigned to each user in advance, which is separated not so as to interfere with each other. The received signal is autocorrelated with the delay version and becomes the narrowband signal with the unique centerfrequency. Therefore, our proposed autocorrelator can provide the anti-narrowband interference and random access capability, unlike the conventional autocorrelators.

This paper investigates an obstructed radio channel by foliage for LMDS (local multipoint distribution services) where a relative evaluation of attenuation characteristics of foliage at 29.5 and 5 GHz is performed. Results show that the attenuation in dB should be treated statistically as Rician distribution. It is also found that swaying foliage in wind causes a significant channel fading at 29.5 GHz, ranging over 10 dB, while the fading depth at 5 GHz is approximately 2 dB.

Ultra-wideband impulse-radio systems have the ability to resolve multiple paths of the transmit radio and to mitigate the fading. Rake reception is capable of combining these paths, thereby improving the signal-to-noise ratio. In LOS channel, however, the improvement may be comparatively small for the cost of increasing receiver system complexity. This is because the LOS path should be dominant for the total energy in all paths. In this paper the distribution of the energy captured by Rake receiver is first presented for 160 measured LOS channel cases and then discussed. Rake reception with reflector is next suggested in order to effectively increase the signal energy without increasing the complexity, that is, increased number of Rake fingers. The use of reflector is also suggested for non-LOS channel and experimentally discussed where the Rake gain is compared with conventional Rake without reflector. The measurement results show the usefulness.

In this paper, we propose an adaptive RAKE receiver, which does not need to send the sounding signals and can track the fluctuations caused by fading. The channel estimation can be done by using a least squares method of the first and second equations suppressing additive noise and tracking the channel fluctuations. It is confirmed by computer simulations that the result has good agreement with theory and the performance is almost same as that of the conventional RAKE with the sounding signals.

In this paper we present a new tracking scheme using two tracking modes which are based on the concept of Delay Lock Loop (DLL). Under the multipath fading channels, a conventional DLL has problems of jitter performance degradation, lock-off and delay offset. It is necessary to solve these problems, because mobile communications have increased drastically. We propose the combination of a coarse tracking mode and a fine tracking mode. The former mode is employed for reducing the possibility of losing lock, the latter mode is used for suppressing the jitter of delay error and the delay offset in the presence of multipath fading. The both modes utilize the power of delay paths shown in the auto-correlation function of the received signal at the DLL. Computer simulation results show that our proposed scheme is extremely useful comparing with a conventional scheme over the multipath fading channels.

This paper shows a Direct-Sequence Spread-Spectrum (SS-DS) demodulator using block signal processing. One of the difficulties in applying SS-DS techniques to the packet radio network is that each packet needs a long initial-acquisition time for despreading. The acquisition time causes the large degradation of the data transmission efficiency. Our proposed SS-DS demodulator uses the block signal processing, unlike the conventional SS-DS demodulators using real time signal processing. Received signal demodulated quasi-coherently is once stored in memory, and after extracting matched-pulse timing and estimating carrier offset, the signal is demodulated. Incoming data, therefore, are all demodulated without being lost by the initial-acquisition time, and our proposed SS-DS demodulator can provide the higher data transmission efficiency.

The RCS of a radar target is an important factor related with the radar performance such as detection, tracking and classification. When dealing with the design of 26/79GHz automotive surveillance radar system, it is essential to know individual RCS of typical vehicles and pedestrian. However, there are few papers related to the RCS measurement at 26 and 79GHz. In this letter, the RCS measurements of typical vehicles and pedestrian were performed in a large-scale anechoic chamber room and the characteristics are discussed.

Delay profile of ultra-wideband impulse-radio (UWB-IR) indoor channel fluctuates for a physical change such as intruder. This paper investigates a human body detection using the UWB-IR in order to protect a house, not a room, because the radio with high range resolution can penetrate into the inner walls and also the reflected paths from human body are discriminated in time domain. The usefulness is experimentally investigated under a scenario which someone intrudes into a typical house with four rooms and walks around.