Time hopping versus frequency hopping in ultrawideband systems
This paper analyzes frequency-hopping (FH) and time-hopping (TH) as multiple access format for ultrawideband communications. We apply the concept of "fourthegy", recently introduced by Subramanian and Hajek, to both TH and FH. We find that the design rules are different for FCC-compliant systems (where the power spectral density is limited) than for conventional systems (where the energy per bit i